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Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The mechanism of the semicircular canal. A study of the responses of single-fibre preparations to angular accelerations and to rotation at constant speed' by Otto Egon Löwenstein and Alec Sand

Reference number: RR/67/277

Date: May 1940

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. There is no mention of the work of D A Ross, who's conclusions were very similar to the authors. This referecne should be added, to avoid the perception that the authors don't want to give credit to a previous worker in the subject.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 May 1940.

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Edgar Douglas Adrian, Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The mechanism of the semicircular canal. A study of the responses of single-fibre preparations to angular accelerations and to rotation at constant speed' by Otto Egon Löwenstein and Alec Sand, May 1940, RR/67/277, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_277/referees-report-by-edgar-douglas-adrian-on-a-paper-the-mechanism-of-the-semicircular-canal-a-study-of-the-responses-of-single-fibre-preparations-to-angular-accelerations-and-to-rotation-at-constant-speed-by-otto-egon-löwenstein-and-alec-sand, accessed on 13 October 2024

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