Referees' reports: volume 65, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
Reference number: RR/65
Date: 1938
Description
Containing referee's reports arranged alphabetically by the lead author of the paper submitted to the Royal Society for review in 1938.
Notable referees and authors include Max Born, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and Alan Sterling Parkes.
When report is on a standardised form (E), the questions are:
1. Whether or not the paper should be read before the Society
2. Whether the paper contains contributions to knowledge of sufficient scientific interest for the space required
3. Whether any portions or illustrations of the paper are redundant
4. Whether it should be published by the Society
5. Whether it should be published in 'Philosophical Transactions' or 'Proceedings'
6.Whether it could be published by some other body
7. General remarks
- Reference number
- RR/65
- Earliest possible date
- 1938
- Physical description
- Loose paper in folders
- Page extent
- Two boxes: reports 1-150; reports 141-288
- Format
- Manuscript
Typescript
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Referees' reports: volume 65, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication, 1938, RR/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65/referees-reports-volume-65-peer-reviews-of-scientific-papers-submitted-to-the-royal-society-for-publication, accessed on 21 March 2025
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This volume contains 288 manuscripts:
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Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'Interaction between adsorbed substances of simple constitution, and insoluble monolayers' by Neil Kensington Adam, F A Askew and Kenneth G A Pankhurst
December 1938 Creator: Eric Keightley Rideal Reference number: RR/65/1 -
Referee's report by Charles Morely Wenyon, on a paper 'Investigations on Mediterranean kala azar. XI A study of leishmaniasis in Canea (Crete)' by Saul Adler, O Theodor and G Witenberg
April 1938 Creator: Charles Morley Wenyon Reference number: RR/65/2 -
Referee's report by Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'The electrical response of the auditory mechanism in cold-blooded vertebrates' by Edgar Douglas Adrian, K J W Craik and R S Sturdy
May 1938 Creator: Hamilton Hartridge Reference number: RR/65/3 -
Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'The kinetics of electrode reactions. I and II' by J N Agar and Frank Philip Bowden
September 1938 Creator: Samuel Walter Johnson Smith Reference number: RR/65/4
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1831- Reference number: RR
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Referee Reports
This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.
Dates: 1832 - 1954
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