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Referee's report by Michael Foster, on a paper 'On the electromotive properties of the leaf of dionaea in the excited and unexcited states' by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

Reference number: RR/8/341

Date: 27 November 1881

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Does not feel competent to express an opinion, not having witnessed the experiments. The author has arrived at some conclusions without having finished their investigation.

Subject: Botany, Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1882]

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RR/8/341
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27 November 1881
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael Foster

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Michael Foster, Referee's report by Michael Foster, on a paper 'On the electromotive properties of the leaf of dionaea in the excited and unexcited states' by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 27 November 1881, RR/8/341, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_341/referees-report-by-michael-foster-on-a-paper-on-the-electromotive-properties-of-the-leaf-of-dionaea-in-the-excited-and-unexcited-states-by-john-scott-burdon-sanderson, accessed on 12 November 2025

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