Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper by 'An investigation into the structure of the lumbo-sacral-coccygeal cord of the macaque monkey (macacus sinicus)' by Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald

Description

Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, rather than Philosophical Transactions. Records that the paper consists of two main sections. The first, on the measurements of the sectional areas of different portions of the spinal cord in a series of cross sections of the lower part of the cord in a monkey, has been carried out with great care and unusual accuracy. The results are of some interest but not of any special importance. The second part of the paper is concerned with the calculation of ratios and percentages based upon the measurements obtained in the first section and seems to him of little value. The minute and exhaustive consideration of the facts of a particular case is in large part mistaken labour. Langley lists the parts of the paper to be omitted and notes that the outlines of the sections of the cord should be reduced in size. Plate one is not worth reproducing as a colour plate but might appear as a block in the text.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1906].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 November 1905.

Reference number

RR/16/312

Earliest possible date

10 November 1905

Physical description

Standardised form (type A) and note on paper

Page extent

4 pages

Format

Manuscript