Paper, 'On the propagation of inhibitory excitation in the medulla oblongata' by H [Hugo] Kronecker and S Meltzer Kronecker and Meltzer present a series of experimental observations and suggest 'that excitations, which are conveyed to the centre along the tracts of the inhibitory nerves, extend in the character of inhibitions to neighbouring centres.' Subject: Neuroscience / Physiology Received 18 October 1881. Read 17 November 1881. Communicated by [John Scott] Burdon-Sanderson. A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the propagation of inhibitory excitation in the medulla oblongata'. 1881