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Referee's report by Joshua Harold Burn, on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris

Reference number: RR/69/146

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'of the greatest interest and importance' and marks an advance in scientific knowledge. The paper could be shortenedand some illustrations could be omitted.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1947].

Date received not given.

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RR/69/146
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1945
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Standardised form (type E)
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Joshua Harold Burn

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Joshua Harold Burn, Referee's report by Joshua Harold Burn, on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris, 1945, RR/69/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_146/referees-report-by-joshua-harold-burn-on-a-paper-the-innervation-and-actions-of-the-neurophypophysis-an-investigation-using-the-method-of-remote-control-stimulation-by-geoffrey-wingfield-harris, accessed on 12 February 2026

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