Referees' reports: volume 23, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
Reference number: RR/23
Date: 1916
Description
Containing referee's reports arranged alphabetically by the lead author of the paper submitted to the Royal Society for review in 1916.
Notable referees and authors include William Crookes, Karl Pearson and Francis Hugh Adam Marshall.
From 1915 onwards, when report is on a standardised form (type D), the questions are:
1. Whether or not the paper should be read before the Society
2. Whether the paper should or should not be published by the Society
3. Whether, in the former case, it should be published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' or 'Proceedings'
4. Whether it should be published in full or only in part or whether any material modifications are necessary
5. Which illustrations, if any, accompanying the paper should be reproduced
General remarks
- Reference number
- RR/23
- Earliest possible date
- 1916
- Physical description
- Loose paper in folders
- Page extent
- One box containing 109 reports
- Format
- Typescript
Manuscript
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Referees' reports: volume 23, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication, 1916, RR/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23/referees-reports-volume-23-peer-reviews-of-scientific-papers-submitted-to-the-royal-society-for-publication, accessed on 14 December 2024
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This volume contains 109 manuscripts:
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Referee's report by Aubrey Strahan, on a paper 'Palaeobotanical relationships of the carboniferous rocks of the South Staffordshire coalfield' by A E Newell Arber
02 March 1916 Creator: Aubrey Strahan Reference number: RR/23/1 -
Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'Palaeobotanical relationships of the carboniferous rocks of the South Staffordshire coalfield' by A E Newell Arber
20 March 1916 Creator: Dukinfield Henry Scott Reference number: RR/23/2 -
Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'Further determinations of direct osmotic pressures' by the Earl of Berkely and E G J Huntley
June 1916 Creator: Hugh Longbourne Callendar Reference number: RR/23/3 -
Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on a paper 'The two-dimensional motion of a plane lamina in a resisting medium' by S Brodetsky
31 October 1916 Creator: Augustus Edward Hough Love Reference number: RR/23/4
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1831- Reference number: RR
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Referee Reports
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This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.View collection