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Just now I am busy over the "Croonian," which must be done before I return.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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I am winding up the "Croonian," and want "L'Archetype" to refer to.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Just now I am busy over the "Croonian," which must be done before I return.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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London in 1893, where he gave the Croonian Lecture in 1897, and was awarded the Royal Medal in 1905 and the Copley Medal in 1927.
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Morgan was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London in 1919, where he delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1922.
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Fellowship of the Royal Society of London (1942), where he was awarded the Royal Medal in 1947 and the Copley Medal in 1959, and where he delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1950.
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The Royal Society of London, where he was the Croonian Lecturer in 1958, awarded him the Royal Medal in 1959.
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Again, in his Croonian lecture on the theory of the vertebrate skull, he remarks that a general diagram of the skull could easily be given.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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-- M.S. Pembrey, "Animal Heat," in S.hafer's _Textbook of Physiology_ (1898); C.R. R.chet, "Chaleur," in _Dictionnaire de physiologie_ (Paris, 1898); Hale White, Croonian Lectures, _Lancet_,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Already, in his Croonian lecture of 1858, “On the Theory of the Vertebrate Skull,” he had challenged, and by direct morphological investigation overthrown, the theory of Oken, adopted and enlarged upon by Owen, that the adult skull is a modified vertebral column.
Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920
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