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Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the colouration of leaves of plants' by Arthur Hill Hassall

Reference number: RR/11/164

Date: 25 November 1892

Description

Not recommended for publication. Although the paper contains a record of painstaking work, it is 'of altogether too crude a character' to be published. He has gone wrong in identifying the blue element of chlorophyll and has overall not correctly interpreted the changes in the colours of leaves.

Subject: Botany

[Not published].

Reference number
RR/11/164
Earliest possible date
25 November 1892
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Typescript

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George Gabriel Stokes

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George Gabriel Stokes, Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the colouration of leaves of plants' by Arthur Hill Hassall, 25 November 1892, RR/11/164, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_164/referees-report-by-george-gabriel-stokes-on-a-paper-on-the-colouration-of-leaves-of-plants-by-arthur-hill-hassall, accessed on 16 June 2025

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