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Unpublished letter, regarding cohesion and capillarity from Richard Morris to [William] Sharpey

Reference number: AP/53/7

Date: 31 May 1871

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Morris describes his plans regarding cohesion and capillarity 'with the single view of bringing certain physiological phenomena from the region of the vague and mysterious into that of the comprehensible.' He aims to show 'that the passage of the [blood] corpuscles through the walls of the vessels without the distension of any previously existing apertures or the permanent solution of the continuity of the vessel walls was a fact, the parallel of which could be found among purely physical phenomena.'

Includes three pages of figures.

Subject: Physiology

Received 5 June 1871.

Written by Morris at Birchfields, Birmingham [England].

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AP/53/7
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31 May 1871
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Ink on paper
Page extent
29 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Morris

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Richard Morris, Unpublished letter, regarding cohesion and capillarity from Richard Morris to [William] Sharpey, 31 May 1871, AP/53/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_53_7/unpublished-letter-regarding-cohesion-and-capillarity-from-richard-morris-to-william-sharpey, accessed on 21 March 2025

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