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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'The threshold of audition for short periods of stimulation' by J W Hughes to Joseph Barcroft

Reference number: RR/69/175

Date: 20 December 1945

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Egerton has suggested that Hartridge would be a suitable referee for the paper. Asks if he agrees and if he will pass the paper if the report is favourable.

Barcroft replies that he concurs.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1946].

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RR/69/175
Earliest possible date
20 December 1945
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Standardised form (type E)
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1 page
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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society on a paper 'The threshold of audition for short periods of stimulation' by J W Hughes to Joseph Barcroft, 20 December 1945, RR/69/175, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_175/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-the-threshold-of-audition-for-short-periods-of-stimulation-by-j-w-hughes-to-joseph-barcroft, accessed on 10 October 2026

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