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Referee's report by Grafton Elliot Smith, on a paper 'The origin of numeral and alphabetic signs' by Richard Paget

Reference number: RR/40/28

Date: August 1929

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication. It adds nothing new to the author's earlier paper which was published in Proceedings earlier. The paper is 'an amazingly ingenious stunt but devoid of any scientific value'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 30 August 1929.

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RR/40/28
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August 1929
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2 pages
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Grafton Elliot Smith, Referee's report by Grafton Elliot Smith, on a paper 'The origin of numeral and alphabetic signs' by Richard Paget, August 1929, RR/40/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_28/referees-report-by-grafton-elliot-smith-on-a-paper-the-origin-of-numeral-and-alphabetic-signs-by-richard-paget, accessed on 22 June 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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