Unpublished paper, 'Account of experiments on the vagus and spinal accessory nerves' by Augustus [Volney] Waller
Reference number: AP/38/16
Date: 29 March 1856

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Waller aims to determine 'the exact influence exerted by the fibres arising from different sources which are intimately blended together in the trunk of the mixed vagus'. He describes a series of anatomical dissections and experiments carried out principally in the laboratory of [Jean Pierre] Flourens at the Jardin des Plants [Paris].
Subject: Neuroscience
Received 31 March 1856. Read 10 April 1856.
Written by Waller in Paris.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Account of experiments on the vagus and spinal accessory nerves'.
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- AP/38/16
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- 29 March 1856
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- 12 pages
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Augustus Volney Waller, Unpublished paper, 'Account of experiments on the vagus and spinal accessory nerves' by Augustus [Volney] Waller, 29 March 1856, AP/38/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_38_16/unpublished-paper-account-of-experiments-on-the-vagus-and-spinal-accessory-nerves-by-augustus-volney-waller, accessed on 16 February 2025
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I. Account of experiments on the vagus and spinal accessory nerves External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1857
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0023
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Archived papers: volume 38, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1855-1856
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