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RefNoPT/74/1/30
LevelItem
TitleDrawing, great anterior column by Sir C [Charles] Bell
Date[1834]
DescriptionPlate 19 showing the great interior column of the brain, showing the nerves of motion. Signed in graphite bottom right 'Drawn by Sir C Bell'. Drawing covered with a thin flap of paper watermarked 'Ruse & Turners 1832'. The exterior of the folder reads 'Drawings Illustrative of Sir Chs Bell's Paper' and is inscribed with publication and plate details. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the functions of some parts of the brain, and on the relations between the brain and nerves of motion and sensation' by Charles Bell.

Received by the Royal Society on 3 March 1834. Read 15 May 1834.
Extent2p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on paper; pasted into folder made of board
Dimensions220x181mm [drawing]
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1834.0023
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0159
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3507Bell; Sir; Charles (1774 - 1842)1774 - 1842
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