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Langley writes: 'The cells of mucous salivary glands I have previously described as consisting of a framework or network, containing in its spaces hyaline substance and granules. I have also mentioned that during secretion the granules disappear from the outer portions of the cells. A similar disappearance of granules has been found by Biedermann to occur in the cells of the mucous glands of the tongue of the frog. The granules of the mucous salivary glands are rendered very distinct by irrigating a mounted specimen of a fresh gland with moderately dilute solutions of neutral or alkaline salts.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 14 April 1886. Read 13 May 1886.

A version of this paper was published in volume 40 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the structure of mucous salivary glands'.

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PP/8/25
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1886
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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18 pages

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John Newport Langley

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John Newport Langley, Paper, 'On the structure of mucous salivary glands' by J N [John Newport] Langley, 1886, PP/8/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_8_25/paper-on-the-structure-of-mucous-salivary-glands-by-j-n-john-newport-langley, accessed on 04 November 2024

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