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Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Some features of the action of the utricular maculæ (and of the associated action of the semicircular canals) of the frog' by John Tait and W J McNally

Reference number: RR/51/101

Date: January 1934

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper seems improved. Suggests the authors clarify if something has been shown, rather than could be shown.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 January 1934.

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RR/51/101
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January 1934
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2 pages
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Edgar Douglas Adrian, Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Some features of the action of the utricular maculæ (and of the associated action of the semicircular canals) of the frog' by John Tait and W J McNally, January 1934, RR/51/101, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_51_101/second-referees-report-by-edgar-douglas-adrian-1st-baron-adrian-of-cambridge-on-a-paper-some-features-of-the-action-of-the-utricular-maculæ-and-of-the-associated-action-of-the-semicircular-canals-of-the-frog-by-john-tait-and-w-j-mcnally, accessed on 20 July 2025

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