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Referee's report by James Paget, on a paper 'Discovery that the veins of the bat's wing (which are furnished with valves) are endowed with rythmical contractility, and that the onward flow of blood is accelerated by each contraction' by Thomas Wharton Jones

Reference number: RR/2/126

Date: 23 February 1852

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to own work, and how the current paper dissents from his observations.

Subject: Physiology, Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

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RR/2/126
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23 February 1852
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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James Paget

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James Paget, Referee's report by James Paget, on a paper 'Discovery that the veins of the bat's wing (which are furnished with valves) are endowed with rythmical contractility, and that the onward flow of blood is accelerated by each contraction' by Thomas Wharton Jones, 23 February 1852, RR/2/126, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_2_126/referees-report-by-james-paget-on-a-paper-discovery-that-the-veins-of-the-bats-wing-which-are-furnished-with-valves-are-endowed-with-rythmical-contractility-and-that-the-onward-flow-of-blood-is-accelerated-by-each-contraction-by-thomas-wharton-jones, accessed on 15 October 2024

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