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Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'On electrical seed-testing' by T Johnson

Reference number: RR/17/188

Date: February 1907

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Augustus Waller ['An attempt to estimate the vitality of seeds by an electrical method', Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol.68, 1901], on which the current paper is only a slight advance. Conclusions are left for research in a future paper.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 February 1907.

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RR/17/188
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February 1907
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Frederick Frost Blackman

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Frederick Frost Blackman, Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'On electrical seed-testing' by T Johnson, February 1907, RR/17/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_188/referees-report-by-frederick-frost-blackman-on-a-paper-on-electrical-seed-testing-by-t-johnson, accessed on 21 May 2025

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