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Letter from Thomas Lauder Brunton, on a paper 'On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve' by Walter Holbrook Gaskell to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/9/37

Date: 27 March 1882

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Has recieved Foster's letter on the paper.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1882].

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RR/9/37
Earliest possible date
27 March 1882
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Letteron paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Lauder Brunton

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Thomas Lauder Brunton, Letter from Thomas Lauder Brunton, on a paper 'On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve' by Walter Holbrook Gaskell to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 27 March 1882, RR/9/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_37/letter-from-thomas-lauder-brunton-on-a-paper-on-the-rhythm-of-the-heart-of-the-frog-and-on-the-nature-of-the-action-of-the-vagus-nerve-by-walter-holbrook-gaskell-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 17 June 2025

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