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Referee's report by Albert Charles Seward and Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The selective photochemical action of polarised light.—I. The hydrolysis of starch' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly and Elizabeth [Sidney] Semmens

Reference number: RR/30/10

Date: August 1924

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work by G Franz Weber. Suggests withdrawing the last two pages of the manuscript, until the experiments have been repeated.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1924]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 August 1924.

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RR/30/10
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August 1924
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4 pages
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Albert Charles Seward

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Frederick Frost Blackman

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Albert Charles Seward, Frederick Frost Blackman, Referee's report by Albert Charles Seward and Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The selective photochemical action of polarised light.—I. The hydrolysis of starch' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly and Elizabeth [Sidney] Semmens, August 1924, RR/30/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_30_10/referees-report-by-albert-charles-seward-and-frederick-frost-blackman-on-a-paper-the-selective-photochemical-action-of-polarised-lighti-the-hydrolysis-of-starch-by-edward-charles-cyril-baly-and-elizabeth-sidney-semmens, accessed on 13 June 2025

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