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Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Electrical activity of the central nervous system of the frog' by R W Gerard and John Zachary Young

Reference number: RR/59/96

Date: December 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests clarifying what has been described by the quoted histologists.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 9 December 1936.

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RR/59/96
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December 1936
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Edgar Douglas Adrian, Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Electrical activity of the central nervous system of the frog' by R W Gerard and John Zachary Young, December 1936, RR/59/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_59_96/second-referees-report-by-edgar-douglas-adrian-1st-baron-adrian-of-cambridge-on-a-paper-electrical-activity-of-the-central-nervous-system-of-the-frog-by-r-w-gerard-and-john-zachary-young, accessed on 04 December 2024

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