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Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A further minute analysis by electric stimulation of the so-called motor region of the cortex cerebri in the monkey (Macacus sinicus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley

Reference number: RR/10/10

Date: 12 October 1887

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', with hesitation, owing to the lack of any general conclusions. Suggests a fair copy of the manuscript be made, the current one being very difficult to read.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1888]

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RR/10/10
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12 October 1887
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Newport Langley

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John Newport Langley, Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'A further minute analysis by electric stimulation of the so-called motor region of the cortex cerebri in the monkey (Macacus sinicus)' by Charles E Beevor and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, 12 October 1887, RR/10/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_10/referees-report-by-john-newport-langley-on-a-paper-a-further-minute-analysis-by-electric-stimulation-of-the-so-called-motor-region-of-the-cortex-cerebri-in-the-monkey-macacus-sinicus-by-charles-e-beevor-and-victor-alexander-haden-horsley, accessed on 20 April 2025

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