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" ... in the [Royal] Society ... date of publication could override date of registration. Walter Needham made this explicit in reporting his perusal [as part of Royal Society registration process] of a book by Reginald de Graaf that had provoked Swammerdam to contest de Graff's authorship of discoveries."