Unpublished paper, 'Note regarding the "Observations" of T [Thomas] Wharton Jones "On the Blood Corpuscles"' by Martin Barry

Description

Barry responds to Jones' criticism of his earlier work on blood corpuscles (see AP/25/18). He observes that the structure of the blood corpuscles can be accurately learned only by a careful investigation of their mode of origin, and by following them through all their changes in the capillary vessels, and especially in the capillary plexuses and dilatations, where all their stages of transition from the colourless to the red corpuscles maybe seen. Dr. Barry denies that he meant certain general remarks in his paper, referring to more than twenty delineations of corpuscles from various animals, to apply exclusively to those of man.

Marked on back as 'Archives 1 June 1843 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.

Subject: Anatomy / Haematology

Received 9 May 1843.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Note regarding the observations of T. Wharton Jones, Esq., F. R. S., "On the blood corpuscles."'.

Reference number

AP/26/1

Earliest possible date

May 1843

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

5 pages

Format

Manuscript