The natural sciences and the development of animal morphology in Late-Victorian Cambridge

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-108

  Blackman, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryology; Francis Maitland Balfour; Morphology; University of Cambridge; Zoology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33847209227     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10739-006-9102-8     Document Type: Review

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