Unpublished paper, 'The pectoral group of muscles' by Bertram Windle

Description

Windle aims to explain the morphology of the pectoral group of muscles, based on the dissection of over fifty mammals, and on descriptions of others in various journals. He finds that a portion of the lateral sheet of muscle, pushed outwards in the form of a cone by the growth of the anterior limb-bud, which belongs to the ventral region, may be divided by radial lines of fission into three segments, namely, an anterior or manubrial, a mesial or gladiolar, and a posterior or abdominal.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Anatomy / Physiology

Received 25 October 1888. Read 6 December 1888. Communicated by Professor A [Alexander] Macalister.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 45 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The pectoral group of muscles'.

A version of this paper was published by Windle in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy: Windle, Bertram. 'The Pectoral Group of Muscles.' The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29 (1887-1892), pp. 345-378.

Reference number

AP/66/19

Earliest possible date

1888

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

38 pages

Format

Manuscript