| Reference number | AP/17/11 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the respiratory organs of the common leech (hirudo officinalis, linn.) and their connections with the circulatory system' by George Newport |
| Date | June 1833 |
| Description | Newport shares his observations on the physiology of the common leech. Includes tabulated experimental results relating to leech lung capacity at different temperatures.
Subject: Zoology / Entomology
Received 5 June 1833. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the respiratory organs of the common leech (hirudo officinalis, linn.), and their connexions with the circulatory system'. |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0122 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/1/173 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA5371 | Newport; George (1803 - 1854) | 1803 - 1854 |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |