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Memoranda from Robert William Harrison, and reply from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'An artificial retina and the theory of vision' by Jagadish Chunder Bose

Reference number: RR/15/17

Date: 12 July 1900

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Harrison encloses the following items [not attached]: [referee's] reports by Fleming and Waller, a letter from Waller to the chairman of the Physiology Committee, and a letter from the chairman of the Physiology Committee. Asks how to proceed.

Foster replies that the publication of Bose's paper not be proceeded with but that the paper should come before the first meeting of the Committee after the vacation.

[Not published].

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12 July 1900
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George Carey Foster, Memoranda from Robert William Harrison, and reply from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'An artificial retina and the theory of vision' by Jagadish Chunder Bose, 12 July 1900, RR/15/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_17/memoranda-from-robert-william-harrison-and-reply-from-george-carey-foster-on-a-paper-an-artificial-retina-and-the-theory-of-vision-by-jagadish-chunder-bose, accessed on 16 July 2025

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