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Paper, 'Observations on the influence which causes the muscles of animals to contract in Galvani's experiments' by William Charles Wells

Reference number: L&P/10/108

Date: 1795

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Subject: Zoology/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the influence, which incites the muscles of animals to contract in Mr. Galvani's experiments'

Read 19 March 1795

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L&P/10/108
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1795
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William Charles Wells

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William Charles Wells, Paper, 'Observations on the influence which causes the muscles of animals to contract in Galvani's experiments' by William Charles Wells, 1795, L&P/10/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_108/paper-observations-on-the-influence-which-causes-the-muscles-of-animals-to-contract-in-galvanis-experiments-by-william-charles-wells, accessed on 08 December 2025

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