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Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff

Reference number: RR/49/106

Date: September 1933

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds some of the paper obscure, and cannot follow the path of the authors' conclusions from the diagrams, some of which are very poor.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 7 September 1933.

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RR/49/106
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September 1933
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Thomas Lewis, Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff, September 1933, RR/49/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_49_106/referees-report-by-thomas-lewis-on-a-paper-the-rhythm-of-the-heart-beat-ilocation-action-potential-and-electrical-excitability-of-the-pacemaker-by-john-carew-eccles-and-h-e-hoff, accessed on 09 December 2024

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