Unpublished paper, 'On the electrical nature of the power possessed by Actiniae of our shores' by Robert McDonnell
Reference number: AP/40/9
Date: 1857
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After referring to the phenomena manifested by electrical fish, and to alleged instances of numbing effects, but of doubtful electrical nature, produced on the naked hand by the contact of certain marine Invertebrata, McDonnell describes his own observations and experiments with the Actinia.
Annotations in pencil throughout.
Subject: Zoology / Electricity
Received 30 November 1857. Communicated by William Bowman.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the electrical nature of the power possessed by the actiniæ of our shores'.
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- AP/40/9
- Earliest possible date
- 1857
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 17 pages
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- Manuscript
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Date: 31st December 1859
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0020
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Archived papers: volume 40, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1857-1858
1857-1858 Reference number: AP/40
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