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Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper [attributed] 'The characteristic of nerve' by Augustus Desire Waller

Reference number: RR/14/265

Date: 14 April 1899

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Suggests the paper would have been expressed differently by a physicist. There is much assumption in the paper. The introduction is written in such a way as to give misleading ideas.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

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

Endorsed on recto as received 1 May 1899.

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RR/14/265
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14 April 1899
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Oliver Joseph Lodge, Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper [attributed] 'The characteristic of nerve' by Augustus Desire Waller, 14 April 1899, RR/14/265, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_265/referees-report-by-oliver-joseph-lodge-on-a-paper-attributed-the-characteristic-of-nerve-by-augustus-desire-waller, accessed on 21 June 2025

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