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Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respira­tion V.—A critical examination of Sachs’ method for using increase of dry weight as a measure of carbon dioxide assimilation in leaves' by David Thoday

Reference number: RR/17/446

Date: 19 June 1909

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, without modifications. It is a 'very valuable piece of work' and 'settles a difficult question'. It should be published in Philosophical Transactions, rather than Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1909].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 June 1909.

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RR/17/446
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Francis Darwin, Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respira­tion V.—A critical examination of Sachs’ method for using increase of dry weight as a measure of carbon dioxide assimilation in leaves' by David Thoday, 19 June 1909, RR/17/446, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_446/referees-report-by-francis-darwin-on-a-paper-experimental-researches-on-vegetable-assimilation-and-respiration-va-critical-examination-of-sachs-method-for-using-increase-of-dry-weight-as-a-measure-of-carbon-dioxide-assimilation-in-leaves-by-david-thoday, accessed on 17 May 2025

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