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Reference numberNLB/67/214
Alternative reference numberNLB/67 p119
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS
Date13 November 1924
DescriptionAsks Sir John Rose Bradford to nominate another referee for the papers 'The influence of tension upon the electrical responses of muscle to repetative stimuli' and 'Some observations upon the electrical responses and shape of the isometric twitch of skeletal muscle' by [John Farquhar] Fulton, communicated by Sir Charles [Scott] Sherrington - the first referee suggested, Professor [Archibald Vivian] Hill, is away in America. Also asks in postscript, whether Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian seems a good referee for a new paper by Fulton which has just come in, 'The relation between the durations of the isometric twitch and of the after-action of tetanus'.
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FormatCarbon
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1395Bradford; Sir; John Rose (1863 - 1935); physician and physiologist1863 - 1935
NA8281Sherrington; Sir; Charles Scott (1857 - 1952); physiologist1857 - 1952
NA8239Hill; Archibald Vivian (1886 - 1977)1886 - 1977
NA6618Adrian; Edgar Douglas (1889 - 1977); 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge; physiologist1889 - 1977
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