Paper, 'On the apparent direction of eyes in a portrait' by Wm [William] Hyde Wollaston
Reference number: PT/17/3
Date: 1824

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20 manuscript pages and six illustrations, each with multiple flaps.
Subject: Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the apparent direction of eyes in a portrait'.
Read 27 May 1824.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
- Reference number
- PT/17/3
- Earliest possible date
- 1824
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 32 pages. This reflects the number of images required for digitisation due to flaps on illustrations.
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1824
May 1823 - June 1824 Reference number: PT/17
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