On the mode of formation of shells of animals, of bone, and of several other structures : by a process of molecular coalescence, demonstrable in certain artificially formed products. / by George Rainey.

  • Rainey, G. (George), 1801-1884.
Date:
1858
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Credit: On the mode of formation of shells of animals, of bone, and of several other structures : by a process of molecular coalescence, demonstrable in certain artificially formed products. / by George Rainey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. A great variety of subjects being treated of in the following pages, it must follow that some of the facts and views therein mentioned have been previously described or suggested by others ; but as the facts and views to which I allude are for the most part of a general character, and of dubious authority, I have thought it better to refrain from mentioning names in connexion with them, than to attribute their origin to wrong authors, especially as the mention of them here will not in any way interfere with the claim to priority of those with whom they originated. I may observe that a portion of the matter comprised in the following treatise has already appeared in the ‘ British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review ’ for October, 1857, and a portion in the ‘ Quarterly Journal