Mr. Matteucci: Carlo Matteucci (1811–68), Italian physicist and neurophysiogist interested in the electrical properties of animal tissues, such as the electrical current of the heart.
Publication in the Philosophical Transactions: Published as C. Matteucci, ‘Electro-physiological researches. Eleventh Series. On the Secondary Electromotor Power of Nerves, and its Application to the Explanation of certain Electro-Physiological Phenomena’, Phil. Trans. 151 (1861) pp. 363–72
24th Oct. 1861: Note on reverse reads: ‘1861 Matteucci by Tyndall’, possibly by Stokes.
Please cite as “Tyndall1818,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on