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Letter from Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'On the electromotive phenomena of the mammalian heart' by William Maddock Bayliss and Ernest Henry Starling to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/11/111

Date: 14 January 1892

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Has included his report. He has been 'confined to the house' with influenza. If his problems with the paper are due to his ignorance, he wishes it to be condensed to the sentence.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1891].

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RR/11/111
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14 January 1892
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur William Rücker

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Arthur William Rücker, Letter from Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'On the electromotive phenomena of the mammalian heart' by William Maddock Bayliss and Ernest Henry Starling to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 14 January 1892, RR/11/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_111/letter-from-arthur-william-rucker-on-a-paper-on-the-electromotive-phenomena-of-the-mammalian-heart-by-william-maddock-bayliss-and-ernest-henry-starling-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 March 2025

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