Unpublished paper, 'Researches in animal electricity' by Charles Bland Radcliffe

Description

The subjects of the inquiry are three in number: firstly, the electrical phenomena belonging to living nerve and muscle during rest; secondly, the electrical phenomena which mark the passing of nerve and muscle from the state of rest into that of action; and thirdly, the workings of voltaic electricity, and of electricity generally, upon nerve and muscle.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives Jan 19/71'. Includes a series of figures in the text of frogs' legs.

Received 10 March 1870. Read 16 June 1870. Communicated by Charles Brooke.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 18 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Researches in animal electricity'.

Reference number

AP/52/10

Earliest possible date

1870

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

102 pages

Format

Drawing
Manuscript