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RefNoEC/1886/13
Previous numbersCert XI, 110
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TitleSedgwick, Adam: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationDistinguished for his discoveries in Animal Morphology especially in Embryology: author of memoirs on "The development of the kidney in its relation to the Wolffian Body in the Chick". Q Jour Microsc Sci 1880: on "The Early development of the anterior part of the Wolffian Duct & body in the Chick, together with some remarks on the excretory system of the Vertebrata" Ibid 1881: on "The Origin of Segmentation and some other morphological questions" Ibid, 1884. on "Certain points in the anatomy of Chiton" Proc Roy Soc 1883. and of an extended research on "the development of Peripatus Capensis" now in course of publication. (Q Journ Mic Sci 1885), to obtain material for which the author visited the Cape in 1883.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: Wm Turner; G J Romanes
From Personal Knowledge: E Ray Lankester; A Milnes Marshall; J N Langley; Alex Macalister; P Herbert Carpenter; E Klein; G H Darwin; St George Mivart; Alfred Newton; W H Gaskell; G M Humphry; Henry Woodward; William B Carpenter
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Sedgwick, Adam: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6841Sedgwick; Adam (1854 - 1913)1854 - 1913
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