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Paper, 'Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres' by Augustus [Volney] Waller

Reference number: PT/38/6

Date: 27 October 1849

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Subject: Zoology / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres'.

Written by Waller in Kensington [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 22 November 1849. Read 21 February 1850.

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/38/6
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27 October 1849
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Ink on paper
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus Volney Waller

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Augustus Volney Waller, Paper, 'Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres' by Augustus [Volney] Waller, 27 October 1849, PT/38/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_6/paper-experiments-on-the-section-of-the-glossopharyngeal-and-hypoglossal-nerves-of-the-frog-and-observations-of-the-alterations-produced-thereby-in-the-structure-of-their-primitive-fibres-by-augustus-volney-waller, accessed on 12 March 2026

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