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Referee's report by William Lawrence Balls, on a paper 'The influence of rainfall on the yield of wheat at Rothamsted' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Reference number: RR/28/130

Date: October 1923

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the opinion of George Udny Yule be sought for the statistical anaysis.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1925]

Endorsed on verso as received 15 October 1923.

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RR/28/130
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October 1923
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William Lawrence Balls, Referee's report by William Lawrence Balls, on a paper 'The influence of rainfall on the yield of wheat at Rothamsted' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, October 1923, RR/28/130, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_130/referees-report-by-william-lawrence-balls-on-a-paper-the-influence-of-rainfall-on-the-yield-of-wheat-at-rothamsted-by-ronald-aylmer-fisher, accessed on 11 February 2025

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