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Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The electric charge of the colloid particles of protoplasm' by B Sen

Reference number: RR/51/55

Date: 23 February 1933

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is open to criticism as regards the cataphoretic velocity, which if made clearer might be worth publishing. The experimental method is careful.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 25 February 1933.

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RR/51/55
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23 February 1933
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2 pages
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Vernon Herbert Blackman

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Vernon Herbert Blackman, Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The electric charge of the colloid particles of protoplasm' by B Sen, 23 February 1933, RR/51/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_51_55/referees-report-by-vernon-herbert-blackman-on-a-paper-the-electric-charge-of-the-colloid-particles-of-protoplasm-by-b-sen, accessed on 19 April 2026

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