Paper, 'On the nervous system' by Sir Charles Bell The illustration for this paper has been separated from the manuscript and is found at PT/74/7/2. Subject: Anatomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the nervous system'. Received by the Royal Society on 24 February 1840. Read 2 April 1840. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843. [1840]