Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

Paper, 'Of the ultimate distribution of the air passages and of the mode of formation of the air cells of the lungs' by William Addison

Reference number: PT/26/8

Date: 16 February 1842

Description

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the ultimate distribution of the air-passages, and the formation of the air-cells of the Lungs'.

Communicated by R B [Robert Bentley] Todd. Received by the Royal Society on 3 March 1842. Read 7 April 1842.

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 4, 1843.

Reference number
PT/26/8
Earliest possible date
16 February 1842
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
43 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Addison

View page for William Addison

Use this record

Citation

William Addison, Paper, 'Of the ultimate distribution of the air passages and of the mode of formation of the air cells of the lungs' by William Addison, 16 February 1842, PT/26/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_26_8/paper-of-the-ultimate-distribution-of-the-air-passages-and-of-the-mode-of-formation-of-the-air-cells-of-the-lungs-by-william-addison, accessed on 16 July 2026

Link to this record

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/pt_26_8/paper-of-the-ultimate-distribution-of-the-air-passages-and-of-the-mode-of-formation-of-the-air-cells-of-the-lungs-by-william-addison" title="Paper, 'Of the ultimate distribution of the air passages and of the mode of formation of the air cells of the lungs' by William Addison" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Explore the collection

  • Philosophical Transactions

    The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.

    Dates: 1802 - 1865

    View collection