Unpublished paper, 'Researches in animal electricity' by Charles Bland Radcliffe
Reference number: AP/52/10
Date: 1870
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
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Charles Bland Radcliffe
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Charles Bland Radcliffe, Unpublished paper, 'Researches in animal electricity' by Charles Bland Radcliffe, 1870, AP/52/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_52_10/unpublished-paper-researches-in-animal-electricity-by-charles-bland-radcliffe, accessed on 07 December 2024
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XXI. Researches in animal electricity External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1871
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1870.0011
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Archived papers: volume 52, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1869-1870
1870 Reference number: AP/52
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Charles Brooke
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