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Referee's report by Charles Samuel Myers, on a paper 'The connecting link between the emotions and their expression in tone etc.' by Sterling Mackinlay

Reference number: RR/26/92

Date: February 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. 'The classification of the emotions, purporting to show their relation to voice quality, is absurd'.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 3 February 1921.

Reference number
RR/26/92
Earliest possible date
February 1921
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Samuel Myers

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Charles Samuel Myers, Referee's report by Charles Samuel Myers, on a paper 'The connecting link between the emotions and their expression in tone etc.' by Sterling Mackinlay, February 1921, RR/26/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_92/referees-report-by-charles-samuel-myers-on-a-paper-the-connecting-link-between-the-emotions-and-their-expression-in-tone-etc-by-sterling-mackinlay, accessed on 05 November 2024

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