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Referee's report by Francis Wall Oliver, on a paper 'An automatic method for the investigation of velocity of transmission of excitation in mimosa' by Jagadish Chandra Bose

Reference number: RR/19/15

Date: September 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The author does not make any reference to previous work, such as that of Haberlandt [Friedrich Haberlandt or Gottlieb Haberlandt] and Wilhelm Pfeffer. 'Bose's paper has very good and very bad points, which is rather what might be expected from a physicist attacking botanical problems'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 10 September 1912.

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RR/19/15
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September 1912
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4 pages
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Referee's report by Francis Wall Oliver, on a paper 'An automatic method for the investigation of velocity of transmission of excitation in mimosa' by Jagadish Chandra Bose, September 1912, RR/19/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_15/referees-report-by-francis-wall-oliver-on-a-paper-an-automatic-method-for-the-investigation-of-velocity-of-transmission-of-excitation-in-mimosa-by-jagadish-chandra-bose, accessed on 20 January 2025

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