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Paper, 'On the structure and functional significance of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton

Reference number: PP/4/31

Date: 1884

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Hamilton writes: 'The results have been obtained by a special mode of preparation formerly described by me [...] 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, and these bundles I have named the tractus internus, tractus medius, and tractus externus.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Neuroscience / Physiology

Received 23 January 1884 / 23 February 1884. Read 28 February 1884. Communicated by [Thomas Henry] Huxley.

A version of this 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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PP/4/31
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1884
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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5 pages
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David James Hamilton

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David James Hamilton, Paper, 'On the structure and functional significance of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton, 1884, PP/4/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_4_31/paper-on-the-structure-and-functional-significance-of-the-human-corpus-callosum-by-d-j-david-james-hamilton, accessed on 14 November 2025

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