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RefNoAP/40/9
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the electrical nature of the power possessed by Actiniae of our shores' by Robert McDonnell
Date1857
DescriptionAfter referring to the phenomena manifested by electrical fish, and to alleged instances of numbing effects, but of doubtful electrical nature, produced on the naked hand by the contact of certain marine Invertebrata, McDonnell describes his own observations and experiments with the Actinia.

Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Zoology / Electricity

Received 30 November 1857. Communicated by William Bowman.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the electrical nature of the power possessed by the actiniæ of our shores'.
Extent17p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0020
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6249McDonnell; Robert (1828 - 1889)1828 - 1889
NA3689Bowman; Sir; William (1816 - 1892)1816 - 1892
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