Record

RefNoPP/13/1/2
Previous numbersPP/45/1
LevelItem
TitlePhotographs, experimental observations by Francis Gotch and Victor Horsley
Date1888
DescriptionOne page of six photographs 'obtained by projecting the image of the capillary electrometer upon a narrow slit behind which an extra rapid photographic plate travelled' during Gotch and Horsley's investigations into the electromotive changes in the mammalian spinal cord following electrical excitation of the cortex cerebri.

Subject: Physiology / Neuroscience

Drawings of the photographs were published in volume 45 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society alongside the paper 'Observations upon the electromotive changes in the mammalian spinal cord following electrical excitation of the cortex cerebri. Preliminary notice'.
Extent1p
FormatPhotograph
PhysicalDescriptionPhotograph
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1888.0069
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6838Horsley; Sir; Victor Alexander Haden (1857 - 1916)1857 - 1916
NA6228Gotch; Francis (1853 - 1913)1853 - 1913
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