Unpublished appendix, 'Appendix to a former paper on human osteology' by Walter Adam

Description

Appendix to Adam's unpublished paper 'On the comparative osteological forms in the adult European male and female of the human species' which includes two tables of measurement comparing the dimensions of the bones of two skeletons.

Subject: Anatomy / Osteology

Received 29 May 1834 by John George Children. Read 19 June 1834. Communicated by Dr [William] Prout.

Written by Adam in London.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this appendix in full, an abstract of the appendix was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Appendix to a former paper on human osteology'.

Reference number

AP/18/1

Earliest possible date

February 1834

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

6 pages

Format

Manuscript