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Paper, 'On the relation which subsists between the nervous and muscular systems in the more perfect animals, and the nature of the influence by which it is maintained' by A P W [Alexander Philip Wilson] Philip

Reference number: PT/21/3

Date: 1833

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the relation which subsists between the nervous and muscular systems in the more perfect animals, and the nature of the Influence by which it is maintained'.

Read 7 February 1833. Manuscript annotation indicates that the paper was received from Dr [Peter Mark] Roget on 8 January 1833.

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 3, 1837.

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PT/21/3
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1833
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38 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Philip Wilson Philip

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Alexander Philip Wilson Philip, Paper, 'On the relation which subsists between the nervous and muscular systems in the more perfect animals, and the nature of the influence by which it is maintained' by A P W [Alexander Philip Wilson] Philip, 1833, PT/21/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_21_3/paper-on-the-relation-which-subsists-between-the-nervous-and-muscular-systems-in-the-more-perfect-animals-and-the-nature-of-the-influence-by-which-it-is-maintained-by-a-p-w-alexander-philip-wilson-philip, accessed on 14 May 2026

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