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RefNoEC/1907/03
Previous numbersCert XII, 238
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TitleBenham, Sir William Blaxland: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor of Biology, University of Otago, New Zealand. One of the Governors of the New Zealand Institute. Author of about 60 zoological memoirs dealing with many groups of the animal kingdom, of which the following are among the more important: - 'Muscular and Endoskeletal System of Limulus' (Trans Zool Soc, 1885); 'Anatomy of Phoronis' (Quart Journ Micros Sci, 1889); 'An Attempt to Classify Earthworms' (ibid, 1890); 'Nephridium of Lumbricus' (ibid, 1891); 'Pharyngeal Bars of Amphioxus' (Ibid, 1893); 'Cerebral Convolutions of Chimpanzee' (ibid, 1894); 'The Blood of Magelona' (ibid, 1896); 'Coelomic fluid of Acanthodrilus' (ibid, 1901); ''Balanoglossus otagoensis'' (ibid, 1899); 'Anatomy of Cogia and other whales' (Proc Zool Soc, 1902); 'Gigantic fossil Cirripede' (Geol Mag, 1903); 'The Sipunculids of New Zealand' (Trans NZ Inst, 1903-1904); 'On new species of Phreodrilus and Haplotaxis' (Quart Journ Micros Sci, 1904); 'Aquatic Larva of Fly Ephydra' (Trans NZ Inst, 1904); 'The Anatomy of Notornis' (Proc Zool Soc, 1899).
ProposersF E Beddard; A Sedgwick; S F Harmer; A E Shipley; J J Lister; D Sharp; P C Mitchell; E S Goodrich; W B Hardy
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Benham, Sir William Blaxland: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA2455Benham; Sir; William Blaxland (1860 - 1950)1860 - 1950
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