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Letter, 'Note to be added to Signor Carlo Matteucci's 7th series of electro-physiological researches' from Carlo Matteucci to William Bowman

Reference number: PT/32/14

Date: 1847

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Letter to Bowman regarding a postscript that Matteucci wishes to add to his paper. Five manuscript pages and one plate showing [Louis François Clément] Breguet's apparatus for measuring contractions. English translation of an extract from this letter found at PT/32/14i.

Subject: Physics

English translation of note published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Electro-physiological researches.—Seventh and last series. Upon the relation between the intensity of the electric current, and that of the corresponding physiological effect'.

Communicated by William Bowman. Received by the Royal Society on 20 May 1847.

Abstract of paper 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/32/14
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1847
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Carlo Matteucci

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Carlo Matteucci, Letter, 'Note to be added to Signor Carlo Matteucci's 7th series of electro-physiological researches' from Carlo Matteucci to William Bowman, 1847, PT/32/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_14/letter-note-to-be-added-to-signor-carlo-matteuccis-7th-series-of-electro-physiological-researches-from-carlo-matteucci-to-william-bowman, accessed on 16 February 2026

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