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Referee's report by Frederic Charles Bartlett, on a paper 'Investigations concerning the blind spot of the retina' by Frederick William Lanchester

Reference number: RR/50/31

Date: May 1933

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication. The experiments have been done 'hundreds of times' before and there is nothing much in the explanation.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 4 May 1933.

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RR/50/31
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May 1933
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2 pages
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Frederic Charles Bartlett

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Frederic Charles Bartlett, Referee's report by Frederic Charles Bartlett, on a paper 'Investigations concerning the blind spot of the retina' by Frederick William Lanchester, May 1933, RR/50/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_50_31/referees-report-by-frederic-charles-bartlett-on-a-paper-investigations-concerning-the-blind-spot-of-the-retina-by-frederick-william-lanchester, accessed on 14 January 2026

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