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Unpublished paper, 'Croonian Lecture: On the coagulation of the blood' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge

Reference number: AP/64/8

Date: 1886

Description

Wooldridge's paper is divided into three sections: 'The relation of the formed elements of the blood to coagulation'; 'The coagulable matters of the plasma'; and 'The chemical processes of coagulation'.

Lecture delivered 8 April 1886.

The Croonian Medal and Lecture is the Royal Society's premier lecture in the biological sciences. The lectureship was conceived by William Croone, one of the original Fellows of the Society. Among the papers left on his death in 1684 were plans to endow two lectureships, one at the Royal Society and the other at the Royal College of Physicians. His widow later bequeathed the means to carry out the scheme. The lecture series began in 1738.

Subject: Physiology

Received 19 November 1886.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 40 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Croonian lecture.— On the coagulation of the blood'.

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AP/64/8
Earliest possible date
1886
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
57 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Leonard Charles Wooldridge

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge, Unpublished paper, 'Croonian Lecture: On the coagulation of the blood' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge, 1886, AP/64/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_64_8/unpublished-paper-croonian-lecture-on-the-coagulation-of-the-blood-by-l-c-leonard-charles-wooldridge, accessed on 19 January 2025

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