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Paper, 'Experiments to ascertain the influence of the spinal marrow on the action of the heart in fishes' by William Clift

Reference number: PT/9/7

Date: 1815

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments to ascertain the influence of the spinal marrow on the action of the heart in fishes'.

Communicated by Sir Everard Home. Read 16 February 1815.

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 2, 1833.

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PT/9/7
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1815
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11 pages
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William Clift

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William Clift, Paper, 'Experiments to ascertain the influence of the spinal marrow on the action of the heart in fishes' by William Clift, 1815, PT/9/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_7/paper-experiments-to-ascertain-the-influence-of-the-spinal-marrow-on-the-action-of-the-heart-in-fishes-by-william-clift, accessed on 11 October 2024

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