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Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The formation of nitrites from nitrates in aqueous solution by the action of sunlight, and the assimilation of the nitrites by green leaves in sunlight' by Benjamin Moore

Reference number: RR/24/42

Date: November 1917

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. 'The author's ms [manuscript] is most untidy and carelessly put together. Only war-considerations prevented the referee from demanding that labour be expended in substituting a clean copy for it'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1918]

Endorsed on verso as received 24 November 1917.

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RR/24/42
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November 1917
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Frederick Frost Blackman

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Frederick Frost Blackman, Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The formation of nitrites from nitrates in aqueous solution by the action of sunlight, and the assimilation of the nitrites by green leaves in sunlight' by Benjamin Moore, November 1917, RR/24/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_42/referees-report-by-frederick-frost-blackman-on-a-paper-the-formation-of-nitrites-from-nitrates-in-aqueous-solution-by-the-action-of-sunlight-and-the-assimilation-of-the-nitrites-by-green-leaves-in-sunlight-by-benjamin-moore, accessed on 21 January 2025

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