Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'The exact histological localisation of the visual area of the human cerebral cortex' by Joseph Shaw Bolton
Reference number: RR/15/13
Date: 21 May 1900
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Sectional committee: Physiology
Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. Some of the microphotographs need not be reproduced with the selection of one or two being left to the author. It is an excellent paper founded on laborious and valuable investigation which marks a distinct step in the progress of knowledge on a very difficult subject. It abounds with hard facts and exact measurements.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1900].
Endorsed on verso as received 23 May 1900.
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Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'The exact histological localisation of the visual area of the human cerebral cortex' by Joseph Shaw Bolton, 21 May 1900, RR/15/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_13/referees-report-by-edward-albert-sharpey-schafer-on-a-paper-the-exact-histological-localisation-of-the-visual-area-of-the-human-cerebral-cortex-by-joseph-shaw-bolton, accessed on 19 January 2026
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