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Paper, 'On the arrangement of the muscular fibres of the ventricular portion of the vertebrate heart, with physiological remarks' by James [Bell] Pettigrew

Reference number: PT/70/11

Date: 1863

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142 manuscript pages and five plates showing ventricles from the hearts of various animals and diagrams of muscular fibre structure.

Subject: Physiology / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the arrangement of the muscular fibres in the ventricles of the vertebrate heart, with physiological remarks'.

Communicated by John Goodsir. Received by the Royal Society on 26 March 1863. Read 23 April 1863.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/70/11
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1863
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Ink on paper
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147 pages
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Manuscript

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James Bell Pettigrew

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James Bell Pettigrew, Paper, 'On the arrangement of the muscular fibres of the ventricular portion of the vertebrate heart, with physiological remarks' by James [Bell] Pettigrew, 1863, PT/70/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70_11/paper-on-the-arrangement-of-the-muscular-fibres-of-the-ventricular-portion-of-the-vertebrate-heart-with-physiological-remarks-by-james-bell-pettigrew, accessed on 11 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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