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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the nature of sleep'.

Received by the Royal Society on 26 January 1833. Read 7 March 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/21/4
Earliest possible date
1833
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Ink on paper
Page extent
35 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 nature of sleep' by A P W [Alexander Philip Wilson] Philip, 1833, PT/21/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_21_4/paper-on-the-nature-of-sleep-by-a-p-w-alexander-philip-wilson-philip, accessed on 07 December 2025

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