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Memoranda, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton

Reference number: RR/68/498

Date: 21 June 1944

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Communicated by Carl Frederick Abel Pantin. Archibald Vivian Hill suggests Alec Sand as a suitable referee, or alternatively Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews or Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge. Can the paper be passed if the first report is favourable? Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, does not known Alec Sand personally, requests Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews be asked to referee, or failing him, ask Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge. Agrees to pass the paper if the first report is favourable.

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

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RR/68/498
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21 June 1944
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Memoranda, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton, 21 June 1944, RR/68/498, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_498/memoranda-on-a-paper-action-potentials-from-the-isolated-nerve-cord-of-the-earthworm-by-william-albert-hugh-rushton, accessed on 10 December 2025

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