So there is a lot out there about creating anchors in markdown, and creating internal table-of-contents-type anchors in a notebook. What I need though is the ability to access an anchor in my notebook on Github from an external source, e.g.:

```
https://github.com/.../mynotebook.ipynb#thiscell

```

I've got a number of interactive tutorials hosted this way, and a single manual that I want to be able to link to sections of the notebooks for. I can add the anchor tags into markdown cells just fine, using: 

```
<a id='thiscell'></a> 

```

but when I try using the link as I wrote above, it just loads the notebook at the top, as if there was no reference to an anchor.