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Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society [Sir Henry Hallett Dale] to [Arthur Stewart] Eve, regarding a paper 'Seeing with Closed Eyes' by A [Alexander Howard] Pirie

Reference number: RR/W/1/48

Date: 03 December 1932

Description

Paper reference code: B.81

Notes that content similar to the paper had been published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and so the paper must be withdrawn.

[Not published but published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, 27, 5, 1932, pp.488-490].

Reference number
RR/W/1/48
Earliest possible date
03 December 1932
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Carbon

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Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society [Sir Henry Hallett Dale] to [Arthur Stewart] Eve, regarding a paper 'Seeing with Closed Eyes' by A [Alexander Howard] Pirie, 03 December 1932, RR/W/1/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_48/copy-letter-from-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society-sir-henry-hallett-dale-to-arthur-stewart-eve-regarding-a-paper-seeing-with-closed-eyes-by-a-alexander-howard-pirie, accessed on 07 June 2026

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