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Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission of nervous impulses through the last abdominal ganglion of the cockroach' by A F Rawdon-Smith and Richard Julius Pumphrey

Reference number: RR/60/56

Date: November 1936

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. Some changes in the English of the paper would improve it. Spinal cord is spelt as 'spinal chord', which should be changed.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 November 1936.

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November 1936
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James Gray, Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission of nervous impulses through the last abdominal ganglion of the cockroach' by A F Rawdon-Smith and Richard Julius Pumphrey, November 1936, RR/60/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_60_56/referees-report-by-james-gray-on-a-paper-synaptic-transmission-of-nervous-impulses-through-the-last-abdominal-ganglion-of-the-cockroach-by-a-f-rawdon-smith-and-richard-julius-pumphrey, accessed on 22 January 2025

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