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Reference numberRR/8/145
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Turner, to Thomas Henry Huxley, regarding a paper 'On the placentation of the Apes, with a comparison of the structure of their placenta with that of the human female' by William Turner
Date27 March 1878
DescriptionCannot make the reading of his paper. Requests Thomas Henry Huxley 'take charge of it'. Has received the plates, and if the paper is accepted, hopes they can be executed with the same care as in his previous memoirs.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1878]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1878.0016 Vol.169 1878
Related records in the catalogueRR/8/146
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6470Turner; Sir; William (1832 - 1916); anatomist and university administrator1832 - 1916
NA8243Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)1825 - 1895
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