Referees' reports: volume 39, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
Reference number: RR/39
Date: 1929
Description
Containing referee's reports arranged alphabetically by the lead author of the paper submitted to the Royal Society for review in 1929.
Notable referees and authors include Norman John Berrill, Robert Benedict Bourdillon and Charles Galton Darwin.
When report is on a standardised form (D), the questions are:
1. Whether or not the paper should be read before the Society
2. Whether the paper should or should not be published by the Society
3. Whether, in the former case, it should be published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' or 'Proceedings'
4. Whether it should be published in full or only in part or whether any material modifications are necessary
5. Which illustrations, if any, accompanying the paper should be reproduced
General remarks
- Reference number
- RR/39
- Earliest possible date
- 1929
- Physical description
- Loose paper in folders
- Page extent
- One box comprising 119 reports
- Format
- Manuscript
Typescript
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Referees' reports: volume 39, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication, 1929, RR/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_39/referees-reports-volume-39-peer-reviews-of-scientific-papers-submitted-to-the-royal-society-for-publication, accessed on 10 October 2024
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This volume contains 119 manuscripts:
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Referee's report by Arthur John Allmand, on a paper 'The thermodynamic analysis of the observed osmotic pressures of protein salts in solutions of finite concentration' by Gilbert Smithson Adair
September 1929 Creator: Arthur John Allmand Reference number: RR/39/1 -
Referee's report by Thomas Martin Lowry, on a paper 'The structure of surface films. Part XIV.?Some esters of fatty acids. Eridence of flexibility in the long chains' by Neil Kensington Adam
06 December 1929 Creator: Thomas Martin Lowry Reference number: RR/39/2 -
Referee's report by Hector Munro Macdonald, on a paper 'On some measurements of the equivalent height of the atmospheric ionised layer' by Edward Victor Appleton
December 1929 Creator: Hector Munro Macdonald Reference number: RR/39/3 -
Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Electron scattering in mercury vapour' by F L Arnot
September 1929 Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/39/4
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1831- Reference number: RR
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Referee Reports
Date: 1832-1954
This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.View collection