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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The referee is a physicist, not a biologist so he cannot offer a definite recommendation. The experimental methods used in the paper are 'quite satisfactory'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1891].

Reference number
RR/11/46
Earliest possible date
1891
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Arthur William Rücker

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Arthur William Rücker, Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on the Croonian Lecture 'On the mammalian nervous system, its functions, and their localisation determined by an electrical method' by Francis Gotch and Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, 1891, RR/11/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_46/referees-report-by-arthur-william-rucker-on-the-croonian-lecture-on-the-mammalian-nervous-system-its-functions-and-their-localisation-determined-by-an-electrical-method-by-francis-gotch-and-victor-alexander-haden-horsley, accessed on 09 February 2025

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