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Referee's report by Thomas Bell, 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/2/127

Date: 11 March 1852

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The minor points in the paper add considerably to it's value.

Subject: Physiology, Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

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RR/2/127
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11 March 1852
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Bell

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Thomas Bell, Referee's report by Thomas Bell, 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, 11 March 1852, RR/2/127, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_2_127/referees-report-by-thomas-bell-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 January 2025

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