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The paper is divided into two parts: the first gives the results of experiments on animals; the second, of observations upon the human being.

Marked on front in red ink as 'Archives'.

Subject: Physiology / Neuroscience

Received 16 June 1864. Communicated by H [Henry] Bence Jones.

Written by Dickinson at 11 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair [London].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 13 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the functions of the cerebellum'.

Reference number
AP/46/3
Earliest possible date
1864
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
67 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Howship Dickinson

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William Howship Dickinson, Unpublished paper, 'On the functions of the cerebellum' by William Howship Dickinson, 1864, AP/46/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_46_3/unpublished-paper-on-the-functions-of-the-cerebellum-by-william-howship-dickinson, accessed on 09 February 2026

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