| RefNo | RR/2/172 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'The reproduction of the Ascaris mystax' by Henry Nelson |
| Date | 21 February 1852 |
| Description | Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Albert von Kölliker and Martin Barry. Discusses the difficulty in descriptive natural sciences of numerous names for a single object; 'When a part has been clearly defined and named that name should stand'. Refers to reviewer's own work on partheogenesis, [Richard Owen, 1849].
Subject: Zoology
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society] |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1852.0023 Vol.142 1852 |
| RelatedRecord | PT.45.3 |
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| RR/2/174 |
| PT/45/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892) | 1804 - 1892 |