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84 manuscript pages, some including figures, and 27 separate plates of figures.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the mechanism of respiration'.

Communicated by Thomas Bell. Received by the Royal Society on 18 December 1845. Read 12 March 1846.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/31/6
Earliest possible date
1845
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Ink on paper
Page extent
111 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis Sibson

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Francis Sibson, Paper, 'On the mechanism of respiration' by Francis Sibson, 1845, PT/31/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_31_6/paper-on-the-mechanism-of-respiration-by-francis-sibson, accessed on 17 February 2025

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