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The first issue of Philosophical Transactions was published on 6 March 1665, under the visionary editorship of Henry Oldenburg. In 1886, the breadth and scope of scientific discovery had increased to such an extent that it became necessary to divide the journal into two: Philosophical Transactions A, covering the physical sciences; and Philosophical Transactions B, covering the life sciences.

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  • December: Vol 352, Issue 1364
  • December: Vol 352, Issue 1363 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Ageing: science, medicine, and society’ organized by J. Grimley Evans, R. Holliday, T. B. L. Kirkwood, P. Laslett and L. Tyler
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  • November: Vol 352, Issue 1362 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Biological and psychological perspectives on memory and memory disorders’ organized by The American Association for Research into Nervous and Mental Diseases
  • November: Vol 352, Issue 1361
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  • October: Vol 352, Issue 1360 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘What are the parietal and hippocampal contributions to spatial cognition?’ organized by N. Burgess and J. O'Keefe
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  • September: Vol 352, Issue 1359 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Immune effector mechanisms in parasitic infections’ organized by F. Y. Liew and K. Vickerman
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  • August: Vol 352, Issue 1358 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Knowledge–based vision in man and machine’ organized by J. Anderson, H. B. Barlow and R. L. Gregory
  • August: Vol 352, Issue 1357 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Human genetics—uncertainties and the financial implications ahead’ organized by R. M. Anderson
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  • July: Vol 352, Issue 1356 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Land resources: on the edge of the Malthusian precipice?’ organized by D. J. Greenland, P. J. Gregory and P. H. Nye
  • July: Vol 352, Issue 1355
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  • June: Vol 352, Issue 1354 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Near–infrared spectroscopy and imaging of living systems’ organized by B. Chance, C. E. Cooper, D. T. Delpy and E. O. R. Reynolds
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  • February: Vol 352, Issue 1350 Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Atmospheric chemistry of sulphur in relation to aerosols, clouds, and climate’ organized and edited by R. A. Cox, C. N. Hewitt, P. S. Liss, J. E. Lovelock, K. R. Shine and B. A. Thrush
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26 May 2018
Volume 373, issue 1747
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 373 (1747)

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