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Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Geotropism and the Weber–Fechner law' by James Small

Reference number: RR/24/77

Date: 1917

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is 'uncritical and obscure'. Refers to work by Hober [?], to whose work the paper should also refer.

[Not published]

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RR/24/77
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1917
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 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 'Geotropism and the Weber–Fechner law' by James Small, 1917, RR/24/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_77/referees-report-by-vernon-herbert-blackman-on-a-paper-geotropism-and-the-weberfechner-law-by-james-small, accessed on 24 March 2025

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