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Referee's report by Arthur Gamgee, on a paper 'The effects of certain modifying influences on the latent period of muscle contraction' by Gerald Francis Yeo and John Theodore Cash

Reference number: RR/8/355

Date: November 1881

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper contains no new methods or results. Suggests the paper be published in full in the Proceedings, with the most essential woodcuts.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1882]

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RR/8/355
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November 1881
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Gamgee

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Arthur Gamgee, Referee's report by Arthur Gamgee, on a paper 'The effects of certain modifying influences on the latent period of muscle contraction' by Gerald Francis Yeo and John Theodore Cash, November 1881, RR/8/355, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_355/referees-report-by-arthur-gamgee-on-a-paper-the-effects-of-certain-modifying-influences-on-the-latent-period-of-muscle-contraction-by-gerald-francis-yeo-and-john-theodore-cash, accessed on 16 September 2024

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