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Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Transmission of death excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose

Reference number: RR/22/16

Date: December 1915

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Sectional committee: Botany

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The experiment used doesn't seem 'sufficient to enable him to deal adequetly with the biological problems raised'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 December 1915.

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RR/22/16
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December 1915
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Vernon Herbert Blackman

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Vernon Herbert Blackman, Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Transmission of death excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose, December 1915, RR/22/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_22_16/referees-report-by-vernon-herbert-blackman-on-a-paper-transmission-of-death-excitation-in-plants-by-jagadis-chunder-bose, accessed on 19 March 2025

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