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Recommended for publication in Proceedings, rather than Philosophical Transactions, as the experiments are not certain enough.

Subject: Botany / Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1877].

Reference number
RR/7/440
Earliest possible date
03 October 1876
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Rutherford

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William Rutherford, Referee's report by William Rutherford, on a paper 'On the physiological action of the bark of Erythrophleum guinense, generally called casca, cassa, or sassy bark' by Thomas Lauder Brunton and Walter Pye, 03 October 1876, RR/7/440, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_440/referees-report-by-william-rutherford-on-a-paper-on-the-physiological-action-of-the-bark-of-erythrophleum-guinense-generally-called-casca-cassa-or-sassy-bark-by-thomas-lauder-brunton-and-walter-pye, accessed on 05 December 2025

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