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26 manuscript pages and two plates illustrating a water gasometer

Subject: Physiology / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On respiration'.

Read 22 June 1809.

Reference number
PT/3/26
Earliest possible date
1809
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Hasledine Pepys

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William Allen

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William Hasledine Pepys, William Allen, Paper, 'On respiration' by Wm [William] Allen and Wm [William] Hasledyne [Hasledine] Pepys, 1809, PT/3/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_26/paper-on-respiration-by-wm-william-allen-and-wm-william-hasledyne-hasledine-pepys, accessed on 13 July 2025

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