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Unpublished paper, 'On the structure and functions of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton

Reference number: AP/63/3

Date: 1884

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Hamilton finds that 'the fibres in the tip of the frontal lobe run almost directly backwards. A short way behind this they become concentrated in an oval shaped area. This oval shaped area still further back divides into three distinct bundles'. He names these bundles the tractus internus, tractus medius, and tractus externus, and goes on to describe their physiology in further detail.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Neuroscience / Physiology

Received 23 February 1884. Read 28 February 1884. Communicated by the President of the Royal Society [Thomas Henry Huxley].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 36 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the structure and functional significance of the human Corpus callosum'.

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AP/63/3
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1884
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Ink on paper
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53 pages
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Manuscript

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David James Hamilton

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David James Hamilton, Unpublished paper, 'On the structure and functions of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton, 1884, AP/63/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_63_3/unpublished-paper-on-the-structure-and-functions-of-the-human-corpus-callosum-by-d-j-david-james-hamilton, accessed on 02 December 2024

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