Letter from Alex [Alexander] Marcet to [William Hyde Wollaston]
Reference number: PT/5/6
Date: 08 January 1811
Description
Letter from Marcet to Wollaston praising Wollaston's hypothesis and research regarding the blood sugar of diabetics. Missing pages 3 and 4.
Written by Marcet at Russell Square. Not published in Philosophical Transactions.
- Reference number
- PT/5/6
- Earliest possible date
- 08 January 1811
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, Letter from Alex [Alexander] Marcet to [William Hyde Wollaston], 08 January 1811, PT/5/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_6/letter-from-alex-alexander-marcet-to-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 12 February 2026
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Paper, 'On the nonexistence of sugar in the blood of persons labouring under diabetes mellitus' in a letter to Alex [Alexander] Marcet from Wm [William] H [Hyde] Wollaston
Creator: William Hyde Wollaston Reference number: PT/5/5
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1811
November 1809 - July 1811 Reference number: PT/5
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William Hyde Wollaston
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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