| RefNo | PT/15/1 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the black retemucosum of the negro [sic], being a defence against the scorching effect of the sun's rays' by Sir Everard Home |
| Date | [1820] |
| Description | 12 manuscript pages and one plate showing a solar eclipse across a three-hour period on 7 September 1820.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the black rete mucosum of the Negro [sic], being a defence against the scorching effect of the sun's rays'.
Read 9 November 1820.
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 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 13p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0138 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0001 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/15/1/1 |
| PT/15/1/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |