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Paper, 'On the changes produced in atmospheric air, and oxygen gas by respiration' by W [William] Allen and W H [William Hasledine] Pepys

Reference number: PT/2/17

Date: 1808

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33 manuscript pages and one plate showing an illustration of a water gasometer.

Subject: Physiology / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the changes produced in atmospheric air, and oxygen gas, by respiration'.

Read 16 June 1808.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/2/17
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1808
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Ink on paper
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34 pages
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Manuscript

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William Allen

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William Hasledine Pepys

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William Allen, William Hasledine Pepys, Paper, 'On the changes produced in atmospheric air, and oxygen gas by respiration' by W [William] Allen and W H [William Hasledine] Pepys, 1808, PT/2/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_17/paper-on-the-changes-produced-in-atmospheric-air-and-oxygen-gas-by-respiration-by-w-william-allen-and-w-h-william-hasledine-pepys, accessed on 11 February 2026

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