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
Reference number: RR/9/36
Date: 25 January 1882

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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].
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- RR/9/36
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- 25 January 1882
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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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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XXIII. The Croonian lecture.—On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1882
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1882.0024
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Letter from Thomas Lauder Brunton, 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 to the Secretary of the Royal Society
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Referee's reports: volume 9, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1882-1887 Reference number: RR/9
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