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Referee's report by Frederick Walker Mott, on a paper 'Observations on the anatomy, physiology and degenerations of the nervous system of the bird' by Rubert William Boyce and W B Warrington

Reference number: RR/14/12

Date: February 1899

Description

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper appears to have been written in a hurry, and requires revision. Refers to work of Bumm [?], Munzer [?] and Wiener [?]. The experimental method should be given more fully.

Subject: Zoology, Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on recto as received 21 December 1898.

Reference number
RR/14/12
Earliest possible date
February 1899
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Typescript

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Frederick Walker Mott

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Frederick Walker Mott, Referee's report by Frederick Walker Mott, on a paper 'Observations on the anatomy, physiology and degenerations of the nervous system of the bird' by Rubert William Boyce and W B Warrington, February 1899, RR/14/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_12/referees-report-by-frederick-walker-mott-on-a-paper-observations-on-the-anatomy-physiology-and-degenerations-of-the-nervous-system-of-the-bird-by-rubert-william-boyce-and-w-b-warrington, accessed on 13 December 2024

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