Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Letter from John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on the Croonian Lecture 'Immunity with special reference to cell life' by Paul Ehrlich to Halliburton

Reference number: RR/15/43

Date: 29 April 1900

Description

Sectional committee: Physiology

He has had had a few minutes conversation with [Michael] Foster regarding Ehrlich's lecture and at Foster's instance sends a few lines on the subject to Halliburton as Chairman of the physiology Committee. There are several points that require attending to make the lecture satisfactory; reference should be made to other observers and when a word is used in a technical sense such as 'immune bodies' a foot note should be given. He has since been over the lecture and has found various errors of translation requiring correction. Regarding the picture of molecules the Committee ought consider if these should appear. For the Proceedings they are perhaps [?], though he doubts they make Ehrlicher's theory any easier to understand.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1899].

Reference number
RR/15/43
Earliest possible date
29 April 1900
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

View page for John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

Use this record

IIIF manifest

View​ IIIF ​ manifest Opens in new tab

Open in Mirador viewer Opens in new tab

Export this record

Download PDF Opens in new tab

Citation

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Letter from John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on the Croonian Lecture 'Immunity with special reference to cell life' by Paul Ehrlich to Halliburton, 29 April 1900, RR/15/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_43/letter-from-john-scott-burdon-sanderson-on-the-croonian-lecture-immunity-with-special-reference-to-cell-life-by-paul-ehrlich-to-halliburton, accessed on 21 April 2025

Link to this record

https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_43/letter-from-john-scott-burdon-sanderson-on-the-croonian-lecture-immunity-with-special-reference-to-cell-life-by-paul-ehrlich-to-halliburton

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/rr_15_43/letter-from-john-scott-burdon-sanderson-on-the-croonian-lecture-immunity-with-special-reference-to-cell-life-by-paul-ehrlich-to-halliburton" title="Letter from John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on the Croonian Lecture 'Immunity with special reference to cell life' by Paul Ehrlich to Halliburton" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Related Publications

Related Records

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Explore the collection

  • Referee Reports

    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

    View collection