Referees' reports: volume 67, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
Reference number: RR/67
Date: 1940
Description
Containing referee's reports arranged alphabetically by the lead author of the paper submitted to the Royal Society for review in 1940.
Notable referees and authors include Charles Maurice Yonge, Edward Crisp Bullard and Harold Munro Fox.
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/67
- Earliest possible date
- 1940
- Physical description
- Loose paper in folders
- Page extent
- Two boxes reports 1-220; reports 221-438
- Format
- Manuscript
Typescript
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Referees' reports: volume 67, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication, 1940, RR/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67/referees-reports-volume-67-peer-reviews-of-scientific-papers-submitted-to-the-royal-society-for-publication, accessed on 15 October 2024
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This volume contains 438 manuscripts:
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Referee's report by Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan, on a paper 'New termite intercastes' by A M Adamson
February 1940 Creator: Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan Reference number: RR/67/1 -
Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The glide elements of body-centred cubic crystal, with special reference to the effect of temperature' by Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade and Y S Chow
March 1940 Creator: Nevill Francis Mott Reference number: RR/67/2 -
Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The equilibrium diagram of the system silver-zinc' by K W Andrews, H E Davies, William Hume-Rothery and C R Oswin
September 1940 Creator: Cecil Henry Desch Reference number: RR/67/3 -
Referee's report by Albert Charles Chibnall, on a paper 'X-ray studies of the molecular structure of myosin' by William Thomas Astbury and Sylvia Dickinson
June 1940 Creator: Albert Charles Chibnall Reference number: RR/67/4
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1831- Reference number: RR
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