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Referee's report by Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, on a paper 'On the descending degenerations which follow lesions of the gyrus marginalis and gyrus fornicatus in monkeys' by E P France and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

Reference number: RR/10/261

Date: 12 April 1889

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper presents new points in the anatomy of nerves. Publication in the Proceedings would not be adequate.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889]

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RR/10/261
Earliest possible date
12 April 1889
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Victor Alexander Haden Horsley

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Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, Referee's report by Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, on a paper 'On the descending degenerations which follow lesions of the gyrus marginalis and gyrus fornicatus in monkeys' by E P France and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, 12 April 1889, RR/10/261, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_261/referees-report-by-victor-alexander-haden-horsley-on-a-paper-on-the-descending-degenerations-which-follow-lesions-of-the-gyrus-marginalis-and-gyrus-fornicatus-in-monkeys-by-e-p-france-and-edward-albert-sharpey-schafer, accessed on 10 July 2025

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