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Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'The yearly variations in plague in India in relation to climate: Forecasting epidemics' by Leonard James Rogers

Reference number: RR/38/126

Date: 26 March 1928

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Referee cannot offer an opinion on the paper and suggest it be set to Yule instead. He thinks the paper may require more detailed statistical analysis.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 January 1928.

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RR/38/126
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26 March 1928
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Arthur Edwin Boycott, Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'The yearly variations in plague in India in relation to climate: Forecasting epidemics' by Leonard James Rogers, 26 March 1928, RR/38/126, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_126/referees-report-by-arthur-edwin-boycott-on-a-paper-the-yearly-variations-in-plague-in-india-in-relation-to-climate-forecasting-epidemics-by-leonard-james-rogers, accessed on 10 July 2025

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