Referee's report by William Sharpey, on a paper 'On the functions of the membrana tympani, the ossicles and muscles of the tympanum, and of the eustachian tube in the human ear, with an account of the muscles of the eustachian tube and their action in different classes of animals' by Joseph Toynbee
Reference number: RR/2/244
Date: 20 February 1851

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the author review work by other authors. Refers to work by Pappenheim [?], Johann Friedrich Cassebohm, Joseph Lieutaud, Hagenbach [?] and Emil Huschke. Considers the paper to contain less new material than the author professes, although it is based on 'actual observation and dissection'.
Subject: Physiology
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
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William Sharpey, Referee's report by William Sharpey, on a paper 'On the functions of the membrana tympani, the ossicles and muscles of the tympanum, and of the eustachian tube in the human ear, with an account of the muscles of the eustachian tube and their action in different classes of animals' by Joseph Toynbee, 20 February 1851, RR/2/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_2_244/referees-report-by-william-sharpey-on-a-paper-on-the-functions-of-the-membrana-tympani-the-ossicles-and-muscles-of-the-tympanum-and-of-the-eustachian-tube-in-the-human-ear-with-an-account-of-the-muscles-of-the-eustachian-tube-and-their-action-in-different-classes-of-animals-by-joseph-toynbee, accessed on 09 February 2025
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On the functions of the membrana tympani, the ossicles and muscles of the tympanum, and of the eustachian tube in the human ear, with an account of the muscles of the eustachian tube and their action in different classes of animals External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0078
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