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Paper, 'Contribution to the history of the interchange of pulmonary gases in the respiration of man' by William Marcet

Reference number: PP/20/18

Date: 1892

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Marcet writes: 'I had the honour of communicating a paper to the Royal Society in June, 1891, embodying the results obtained from a first series of inquiries on the interchange of pulmonary gases. The investigation has been continued, and I have had the benefit of the assistance of Mr G P Darnell Smith, B. Sc., in the present work.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 9 June 1892. Read 16 June 1892.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Contribution to the history of the interchange of pulmonary gases in the respiration of man'.

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PP/20/18
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1892
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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30 pages
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William Marcet, Paper, 'Contribution to the history of the interchange of pulmonary gases in the respiration of man' by William Marcet, 1892, PP/20/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_18/paper-contribution-to-the-history-of-the-interchange-of-pulmonary-gases-in-the-respiration-of-man-by-william-marcet, accessed on 28 April 2025

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