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Referee's report and letter from Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'Separation of the ‘blue’ and ‘green’ mechanisms of foveal vision by measurements of increment thresholds' by Walter Stanley Stiles to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/69/303

Date: 02 August 1945

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings or Philosophical Transactions. He doesn't like the waves and squiggles over the letters in one of the tables.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 7 August 1945.

Letter states that he has only looked through the paper 'rather hurridely' as he is going away for two weeks. He has a paper of his own which is ready for publication. He is aware that he may have to wait a while due to the paper shortage.

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RR/69/303
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02 August 1945
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Standardised form (type E) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Hamilton Hartridge

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Hamilton Hartridge, Referee's report and letter from Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'Separation of the ‘blue’ and ‘green’ mechanisms of foveal vision by measurements of increment thresholds' by Walter Stanley Stiles to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 02 August 1945, RR/69/303, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_303/referees-report-and-letter-from-hamilton-hartridge-on-a-paper-separation-of-the-blue-and-green-mechanisms-of-foveal-vision-by-measurements-of-increment-thresholds-by-walter-stanley-stiles-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 06 September 2026

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