| RefNo | AP/18/17 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the teredo navalis, and limnoria tenebrans, as at present existing in certain localities in the British Islands' by William Thompson |
| Date | April 1834 |
| Description | Thompson, Vice President of the Natural History Society of Belfast, shares his observations on the shipworm and the short-palped cranefly.
Subject: Mollusks / Entomology
Received 12 April 1834. Read 19 June 1834. Communicated by J G [John George] Children.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Observations on the Teredo navalis and Limnoria terebrans, as at present existing in certain localities of the British Islands'. |
| Extent | 35p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0166 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3175 | Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist | 1777 - 1852 |