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The most extensive biographical account of Forbes is by Wallace O.Fenn, “Alexander Forbes, May 14, 1882–March 27, 1965,” Biog. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., 40 (1969), 113–141, which contains a serviceable although not complete bibliography.
For a scientific appreciation of Forbes's work, see J. C.Eccles, “Alexander Forbes and His Achievement in Electrophysiology,” Perspect. Biol. Med., 13 (1969–70), 388–404.
AlexanderForbes and AlanGregg, “Electrical Studies in Mammalian Reflexes. I. The Flexion Reflex,” Amer. J. Physiol., 37 (1915), 118–176; and “Electrical Studies in Mammalian Reflexes. II. The Correlation between Strength of Stimuli and the Direct and Reflex Nerve Response,” ibid., 39 (1915), 172–235.
AlexanderForbes and CatharineThacher, “Amplification of Action Currents with the Electron Tube in Recording with the String Galvanometer,” Amer. J. Physiol., 52 (1920), 409–471.
AlexanderForbes, “The Interpretation of Spinal Reflexes in Terms of Present Knowledge of Nerve Conduction,” Physiol. Rev., 2 (1922), 361–414.
AlexanderForbes, ClarenceJ. Campbell, and HoratioB. Williams, “Electrical Records of Afferent Nerve Impulses from Muscular Receptors,” Amer. J. Physiol., 69 (1924), 283–303.
AlexanderForbes, HallowellDavis, DavidBrunswick, and AnneMcHenry Hopkins, “Conduction without Progressive Decrement in Nerve under Alcohol Narcosis,” Amer. J. Physiol., 72 (1925), 177–178; and “Studies of the Nerve Impulse. II. The Question of Decrement,” ibid., 76 (1926), 448–471.
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Frank, R.G., Goetzl, J.H. The J. H. B. Archive report the Alexander Forbes papers. Journal of the History of Biology 11, 387–393 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389305
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