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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/11/113

Date: 18 January 1892

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Discusses the electrometer used in the experiment. Would like for the authors to be questioned on this point.

Subject: Physiology

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

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RR/11/113
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18 January 1892
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Letter on paper
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4 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, 18 January 1892, RR/11/113, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_113/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 21 March 2025

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