| RefNo | AP/33/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Researches into the structure of the spinal cord' by Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke |
| Date | 1850 |
| Description | Clarke shares a series of observations with the view of determining the relationship between the spinal nerves and the respiratory nervous centres. After stating that the observations were made, by means of a microscope of the best construction, upon many thousand preparations of the spinal cord of a man, a calf, a sheep, a pig, a dog, a cat, a rabbit, a guinea-pig and a frog, he describes the methods adopted in making these preparations.
Marked on title page as 'Not to be printed - see other copy'.
Subject: Neuroscience
Received 15 October 1850. Read 5 December 1850. Communicated by Samuel Solly.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Researches into the structure of the spinal cord''. |
| Extent | 34p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | Not available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making. |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0001 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8363 | Solly; Samuel (1805 - 1871) | 1805 - 1871 |
| NA3687 | Clarke; Jacob Augustus Lockhart (1817 - 1880) | 1817 - 1880 |