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Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'Note on the functions of the sinuses of Valsalva and auricular appendices, with some remarks on the mechanism of the heart and pulse' by M Collier

Reference number: RR/10/27

Date: 30 July 1887

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Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London or the Philosophical Transactions. No details or results of the mentioned experiments are given in the paper. The rest of the paper comprises a criticism of the language used in textbooks.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1887]

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RR/10/27
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30 July 1887
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'Note on the functions of the sinuses of Valsalva and auricular appendices, with some remarks on the mechanism of the heart and pulse' by M Collier, 30 July 1887, RR/10/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_27/referees-report-by-john-scott-burdon-sanderson-on-a-paper-note-on-the-functions-of-the-sinuses-of-valsalva-and-auricular-appendices-with-some-remarks-on-the-mechanism-of-the-heart-and-pulse-by-m-collier, accessed on 13 May 2025

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