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Reference numberRR/5/50
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William Scovell Savory, on a paper 'Experimental researches on spontaneous generation' by Gilbert W Child
DateJuly 1864
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the subject has been covered greatly in previous researches, upon which the current paper adds little. The author himself admits the experiments are incomplete and unsatisfactory.

Subject: Botany and Physiology

[Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1863]
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1863.0069 Vol.13 1864
Related records in the catalogueRR/5/49
AP/46/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA3691Savory; Sir; William Scovell (1826 - 1895)1826 - 1895
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