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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies probably not, as the 'utilisation of such differential herbicides to Japanese crops would offer difficulties'.

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

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/69/278
Earliest possible date
1945
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
1 page
Format
Typescript

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Edward James Salisbury

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Edward James Salisbury, Referee's report by Edward James Salisbury, on a paper 'The differential effect of synthetic plant growth substances and other compounds upon plant species I. Seed germination and early growth responses to a-naphthylacetic acid and compounds of the general formula arylOCH2COOR' by W A Sexton and W G Templeman, 1945, RR/69/278, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_278/referees-report-by-edward-james-salisbury-on-a-paper-the-differential-effect-of-synthetic-plant-growth-substances-and-other-compounds-upon-plant-species-i-seed-germination-and-early-growth-responses-to-a-naphthylacetic-acid-and-compounds-of-the-general-formula-aryloch2coor-by-w-a-sexton-and-w-g-templeman, accessed on 13 November 2025

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