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Credit: Memoirs on the ganglia and nerves of the uterus / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ZD Dr. R. Lee's recent dissections of the nerves of the uterus, that there was no doubt that they were nerves. The only question was,—Whether the recent dissections displayed the same nerves as his former ones: and with regard to Mr. Beck's dissections, whether they displayed nerves not previously shown by Dr. Lee. Professor Retzius himself had no doubt of Dr. Lee's dissections being the display of nerves.—Marshall Hall. August 15th, 1845.— Dr. Hall to Professor Retzius: The question is. Are what Dr. Lee shows nerves or not? What do you say, Professor Retzius. Yes or no ?—Professor Retzius : I say ' Yes.'—Had Dr. Sharpey and Mr. Quain taken the trouble to look at my recent dissections, they would have seen that they displayed the same ganglia and nerves as my former dissections, but more distinctly, and that the claim they were thus bringing forward to Professor Retzius, in favour of their pupil, was completely without foundation. Professor Retzius was not granted an opportunity of comparing the two dissections of their pupil with mine, and publicly bearing that testimony to the trath which he would have done. The next meeting of the Committee of Physiology took place on the 27th October, pursuant to a summons, which stated, that, besides other business, the recommendation of a paper for the award of the Royal Medal in Physiology for 1845, was to be considered. The committee having met, Mr. Lawrence, in the absence of the chairman. Sir B. Brodie, took the chair. After some part of the business had been transacted. Dr. Roget stated to the meeting, that it was a mistake in the summons that the recommendation of a Royal Medal in Physiology was to be considered ; that there was no Royal Medal in Physiology for 1845, and that therefore there was no further business before the Committee. Upon this announcement, Mr. Lawrence, having twice put the question, whether or not there was any fiirther business, duly dissolved the meeting, and left the chair. After the meeting had been thus dissolved, Mr. Lawrence left the apaitments of the Royal Society, but all the other members who had been present at the meeting remained. After Mr. Lawrence had left, some one referred to the announcements regarding the Royal Medals in the Philosophical Transactions, when it was dis- covered that, as stated in the summons to the members of the Committee convening the meeting which had just been dissolved, a Physiological Medal did fall to be awarded in 1845. This discovery having been made, the members of the Physiological Committee who had been pi'esent at the meeting duly convened and constituted,—but which Mr. Lawi'ence, the chairman, had dissolved, and who still remained in the apartments of the Royal Society, —sat down, placed Dr. Todd in the chair, and proceeded to determine what paper should Be recommended to the Council for the award of the Royal Medal in Physiology, as if they had constituted a meeting of the Physiological Committee duly convened. The following is copied from the Journal Book of the Committee of Physiology :— Committee of Physiology, Oct. 27, 1845. Present: Mr. Lawrence, in the chair. Dr. Bostock, Dr. Todd, Dr. Roget, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Kiernan, Mr Bell, and Dr. Sharpey.—It was resolved : That Mr. Wilson's paper ' On the growth and development of the epidermis' be not recommended to be printed in the Transactions.—It was resolved : That Mr. Wharton Jones's paper ' On the blood corpuscles, considered in the phases of their development,' be recommended to be printed. —It was resolved : That Professor Purkinje be recommended to the Council to be proposed as a foreign member.—It was resolved : That the Council be recommended to award the Copley Medal to Professor Owen, for his work on the intimate structure of the teeth, entitled Odontography; and on account of his various other important contributions to comparative anatomy and physiology. \_Committee dissolved and broken up.'] Mr. Lawrence having left the Committee, the chair was taken by Dr. Todd, and the Committee proceeded to consider the award of the Royal Medal. The following papers were named:—Dr. Barry, on Spermatozoa observed in the mammiferous ovum.—Mr. Arthur Farre, on the organ of hearing in the Crustacea.—Mr. Newport, on the circulation of the Myriapoda.—Dr. Davy, on animal heat.—Mr. Newport, on the reproduction of lost parts in insects.—Mr. Simon, on the comparative anatomy of the thymus gland.— Mr. Wilson, on the parasitic animal- cules in the sebaceous follicles.—Mr. Matteucci's electro-physiological researches.—Mr. Wharton Jones, on the blood corpuscles.—Mr. Addison, on some peculiar modifications of the force of cohesion.—Mr. Rigg, on the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21937394_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
