Record

RefNoPT/70/11/6
LevelItem
TitlePlate, dissected sheep's heart and diagrams of muscular fibres by [Edwin M Williams]
Date[1863]
DescriptionPlate 5 (published as plate XVI) containing figures 55 and diagrams 3-18. Figure 5 shows a sheep's heart separated into bilateral elements. This figure was drawn from a photograph taken by James Pettigrew. Diagrams 3-18 show sheets of net and paper threaded with wool representing the placement and pattern of muscular fibres in various parts of the heart.

Subject: Physiology / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the arrangement of the muscular fibres in the ventricles of the vertebrate heart, with physiological remarks'.

Communicated by John Goodsir. Received by the Royal Society on 26 March 1863. Read 23 April 1863.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk and ink wash on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1862.0115
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1864.0014
RelatedRecordRR/5/182
RR/5/183
PT/70/11
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6343Pettigrew; James Bell (1834 - 1908)1834 - 1908
NA7649Goodsir; John (1814 - 1867)1814 - 1867
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