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Paper, 'On the distribution of nerves to the elementary fibres of striped muscle' by Lionel S [Smith] Beale

Reference number: PT/61/12

Date: 1860

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25 manuscript pages and one plate showing nerves and muscle fibres from frogs and mice.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the distribution of nerves to the elementary fibres of striped muscle'.

Received by the Royal Society on 19 June 1860. Read 21 June 1860.

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 10, 1860.

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PT/61/12
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1860
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Ink on paper
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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Lionel Smith Beale

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Lionel Smith Beale, Paper, 'On the distribution of nerves to the elementary fibres of striped muscle' by Lionel S [Smith] Beale, 1860, PT/61/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_61_12/paper-on-the-distribution-of-nerves-to-the-elementary-fibres-of-striped-muscle-by-lionel-s-smith-beale, accessed on 23 June 2025

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