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ARISING out of the letter on the above subject in NATURE of June 29, by Dr. D. Fraser Harris, is the true date of the momentous discovery of what is the oxygon carrier of the blood. This discovery is put down to Sir G. G. Stokes, and the date some years later than 1862.
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ROBERTS, R. The Date of the Discovery of the Capillaries. Nature 87, 46 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087046a0
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