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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The 'investigations recorded in the paper are remarkably exact and complete and have led the author to discoveries'.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1882].

Reference number
RR/9/36
Earliest possible date
25 January 1882
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

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John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve' by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, 25 January 1882, RR/9/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_36/referees-report-by-john-scott-burdon-sanderson-on-a-paper-on-the-rhythm-of-the-heart-of-the-frog-and-on-the-nature-of-the-action-of-the-vagus-nerve-by-walter-holbrook-gaskell, accessed on 25 June 2025

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