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RefNoRR/6/106
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Peter Martin Duncan, to William Allen Miller, regarding a paper 'On the genera Heterophyllia, Battersbyia, Palaecyclus, and Asterosmilia; the anatomy of their species, and their position in the classification of sclerodermic zoantharia' by Peter Martin Duncan
Date30 October 1867
DescriptionHad sent some rough, but faithful, sketches along with the paper, which have been passed to the lithographer Williams, who has turned them into plates. Has to explain the necessity for careful figures from the specimens, not the sketches used by mistake.

Subject: Geology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1867.0021 Vol.157 1867
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5866Duncan; Peter Martin (1821 - 1891)1821 - 1891
NA7299Miller; William Allen (1817 - 1870)1817 - 1870
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