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Paper, 'The influence of bodily labour upon the discharge of nitrogen' by W North

Reference number: PP/7/23

Date: 1885

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North writes: 'As in the experimental researches previously published on the subject of the present paper, the methods employed have been for the most part entirely different from those which I have found best adapted to the purpose, I have after much consideration judged it inexpedient to lengthen an already long communication by giving an account of them.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes four pages of graphs of experimental results.

Subject: Biology

Received 29 October 1883. Read 15 November 1883. Communicated by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 39 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The influence of bodily labour upon the discharge of nitrogen'.

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PP/7/23
Earliest possible date
1885
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
172 pages
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Manuscript
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W North

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W North, Paper, 'The influence of bodily labour upon the discharge of nitrogen' by W North, 1885, PP/7/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_7_23/paper-the-influence-of-bodily-labour-upon-the-discharge-of-nitrogen-by-w-north, accessed on 05 December 2024

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