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Reference numberMC/3/279
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William B. Carpenter, Bristol, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society]
Date10 May 1843
DescriptionForwarding drawings for his paper on shell structure, recently received from the artist. Carpenter goes into detail on the history of the paper.
[The whole letter has an extent of 14p and consists of 4 sheets. The first three contain 4p each, with the last sheet containing 2p. They are labelled within the volume as MC/3/279a-279c/.]
Extent14p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0212
Related records in the catalogueMC/3/280
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA2869Carpenter; William Benjamin (1813 - 1885); naturalist1813 - 1885
NA6616Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist1779 - 1869
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