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Authorised form of nameBlackman; Vernon Herbert (1872 - 1967)
Dates1872 - 1967
Date of birth08 January 1872
Date of death01/10/1967
ActivityEducation:
City of London School (1884-1888); MA; ScD (Camb)
Career:
Professor of Plant Physiology and Director, Biological Laboratories, Imperial College, London
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/05/1913
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1968 vol 14 pp 37-60, plate, by Helen K Porter
CodeNA6611
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/37/810Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Francis] W [Wall] Oliver FRS, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee19 May 1908
NLB/17/123Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Vernon Herbert Blackman, British Museum, Natural History, Cromwell Road, S.W.20 July 1898
RR/40/108Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The role of the young lucerne plant in determining the infection of the root by the nodule-forming bacteria' by Henry Gerard Thornton 16 February 1929
NLB/17/39Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Vernon Herbert Blackman, [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 July 1898
NLB/17/55Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Vernon Herbert Blackman, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 July 1898
NLB/17/504Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Vernon Herbert Blackman, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 November 1898
NLB/17/139Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Vernon Herbert Blackman, [Fellow of the Royal Society], British Museum, Natural History, Cromwell Road, S.W.25 July 1898
NLB/17/119Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to George Robert Milne Murray, and Vernon Herbert Blackman, Fellows of the Royal Society12 July 1898
NLB/17/115Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Treasurer of the Linnean Society, Burlington House20 July 1898
NLB/54/127Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS13 February 1917
NLB/37/656Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Francis] W [Wall] Oliver. Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1908
NLB/52/558Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Bretland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS14 January 1916
RR/22/23Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'A bacterial test for plant food accessories (auximones)' by W B BottomleyJune 1915
RR/32/135Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The nucleolus of tmesipteris tannensis, bernh' by J S YeatesFebruary 1925
RR/22/19Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Physiological investigations with Petiole-Pulvinus preparations Mimosa pudica' by Jagadis Chunder Bose and Surendra Chandra DasDecember 1915
RR/56/57Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Natural celluloses, Parts I, II and III' by A G Norman[May 1935]
RR/22/40Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'On the relation between transpiration and stomatal aperture' by Francis DarwinAugust 1915
NLB/54/528Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS11 June 1917
NLB/54/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS27 June 1917
RR/24/63Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Some effects of organic growth-promoting substances (auximones) on the soil organisms concerned in the nitrogen cycle' by Florence A Mockeridge[January 1917]
RR/30/79Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The effect of grass on trees' by Albert Howard[June 1924]
NLB/56/324Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS14 January 1919
NLB/56/396Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS30 January 1919
RR/35/116Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The enzymatic function of mitochondria in the germination of cereals' by E S Horning and Arthur H K PetrieOctober 1927
NLB/56/856Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS17 June 1919
NLB/56/816Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS2 June 1919
NLB/58/549Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS21 May 1920
RR/33/52Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experiments on the physiology and genetics the smut fungi.—Hyphal-fusion' by Sydney Dickinson7 December 1926
NLB/67/571Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS23 January 1925
RR/34/83Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'On the macro-chemistry of the endodermis' by J H Priestley and Edgar Rhodes[April 1926]
RR/40/109Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The influence of the host plant in inducing parasitism in lucerne and clover nodules' by Henry Gerard Thomson16 December 1929
RR/43/81Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The integration of plant behaviour. III.- The effect of gravity on the growth of roots' by Frederick William Keeble, M G Nelson and R SnowApril 1931
NLB/69/280Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS22 February 1926
RR/67/37Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Photosynthesis in intermittent illumination' by George Edward Briggs16 December 1940
RR/42/66Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The fluctuations of bacterial numbers and nitrate content of field soils' by Henry Gerard Thornton and P H H Gray28 April 1930
NLB/68/484Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Alfred] Daniel Hall, KCB, FRS16 July 1925
RR/14/73Letter from Michael Foster, to Edwin Ray Lankester, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackmannd [1898]
RR/42/15Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The electrical properties of the inner epidermis of the onion scale' by Richard Julius Pumphrey4 November 1931
RR/20/37Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'On dimensions of chromosomes considered in relation to phylogeny' by John Bretland Farmer and L Digby4 December 1913
RR/44/136Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The physiological action of cyanide.—I. The effects of cyanide on the respiration and sugar content of the potato at 15° C' by Charles Samuel Hanes and John Barker14 January 1931
RR/44/78Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experiments on phyllotaxis. I. - The effect of isolating a primordium' by Mary Snow and George Robert Sabine SnowSeptember 1931
RR/43/82Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The integration of plant behaviour. IV.-Geotropism and growth-substance' by Frederick William Keeble, M G Nelson and R Snow6 June 1931
RR/24/77Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Geotropism and the Weber–Fechner law' by James Small[1917]
NLB/57/107Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor VH [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS, Chairman, Botany Committee24 July 1919
NLB/57/80Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor VH [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS, Chairman, Botany Sectional Committee15 July 1919
RR/22/5Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Analyses of agricultural yield. Part III. —The influence of natural environmental factors upon the yield of Egyptian cotton' by William Lawrence Balls21 December 1915
RR/49/38Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. XXI.—Induction phases in photosynthesis and their bearing on the mechanism of the process' by George Edward Briggs[February 1933]
NLB/57/164Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor VH [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee31 July 1919
NLB/68/61Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS8 May 1925
RR/52/105Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experiments on phyllotaxis - Part III - Diagonal splits through decussate apices' by Mary Snow and R SnowSeptember 1934
RR/54/143Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The numbers of bacterial cells in field soils, as estimated by the ratio method' by Henry Gerard Thornton and P. H. H. Gray30 April 1934
RR/36/38Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Electrical effects accompanying the decomposition of organic compounds. III. Photosynthesis and plant nutrition' by M C Potter31 January 1927
RR/54/87Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Studies in the geotropism of the pteridophyta V—Some effects of temperature on growth and geotropism in Asplenium bulbiferium' by T L PrankerdJune 1934
RR/51/55Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The electric charge of the colloid particles of protoplasm' by B Sen23 February 1933
RR/51/76Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experiments on Phyllotaxis. II. — The effect of displacing a primordium' by Mary Snow and R Snow[February 1933]
NLB/68/30Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS1 May 1925
RR/57/20Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Short-period fluctuations in the numbers of bacterial cells in soil' by Charles Bingham Taylor[November 1935]
RR/53/147Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The integration of plant behaviour V—Growth substance and traumatic curvature of the root' by Frederick William Keeble and M G Nelson[December 1934]
NLB/61/802Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS27 October 1921
RR/65/235Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Micrurgical studies on virus-infected plants' by F M L SheffieldOctober 1938
RR/55/104Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The internal mechanics of the chromosomes III—relational coiling and crossing-over in Fritillaria' by Cyril Dean DarlingtonMarch 1935
RR/56/80Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Studies in the geotropism of pteridophyta VI—On rhythm in graviperception and reaction to gravity' by T L Prankerd24 October 1935
NLB/72/705Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS13 March 1930
RR/55/26Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The effect of ultracentrifuging on the cells of the root tip of the bean ( Phaseolus Vulgaris)' by H W Beams and R L KingMarch 1935
RR/55/103Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The internal mechanics of the chromosomes I—The nuclear cycle in Fritillaria' by Cyril Dean DarlingtonMarch 1935
RR/60/34Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The growth of chlorella vulgaris in pure culture' by William Harold Pearsall and L LooseJune 1936
RR/65/54Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on plant respiration V. On the respiration of some storage organs in different oxygen concentrations' by J K ChoudhuryJanuary 1939
NLB/67/251Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS21 November 1924
NLB/57/283Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor VH [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS3 October 1919
RR/41/35Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The accumulation of electrolytes in plant cells—a suggested mechanism' by G E BriggsAugust 1930
RR/14/68Referee's report by John Murray, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman24 May 1898
NLB/63/237Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS20 July 1922
NLB/68/331Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS19 June 1925
NLB/67/766Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS2 March 1925
NLB/67/634Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS4 February 1925
NLB/65/582Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert ] Blackman, FRS23 November 1923
NLB/67/635Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS4 February 1925
NLB/64/748Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS 14 June 1923
NLB/68/93Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS9 May 1925
NLB/67/670Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS12 February 1925
NLB/67/661Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS9 February 1925
NLB/67/877Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS30 March 1925
NLB/68/151Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS20 May 1925
NLB/67/486Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS8 January [1925]
NLB/67/326Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS; also sent to Dr [Henry Hallett] Dale; Professor [Frederick William] Gamble; Professor [Edwin Stephen] Goodrich5 December 1924
NLB/67/321Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS5 December 1924
NLB/67/787Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS9 March 1925
NLB/68/211Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS28 May 1925
NLB/68/40Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS4 May 1925
NLB/67/716Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS19 February 1925
NLB/68/9Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS27 April 1925
NLB/69/78Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof, [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS4 January 1926
NLB/69/234Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS11 February 1926
NLB/68/395Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS9 July 1925
NLB/68/765Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS30 October 1925
NLB/68/551Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS6 August 1925
NLB/69/66Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS23 December 1925
NLB/73/237Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS23 March 1931
NLB/71/842Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80 Regent Street, W114 November 1928
NLB/73/57Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS7 November 1930
NLB/72/949Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS17 July 1930
NLB/73/368Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir George Hadcock, K.B.E., FRS9 July 1931
NLB/68/136Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS19 May 1925
NLB/68/10Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS27 April 1925
IM/GA/WS/1651Blackman, Vernon Herbert1946
RR/38/138Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The effect of temperature on the permeability of protoplasmic membrane' by Basiswar SenJune 1928
NLB/17/59Copy letter from an unknown correspondent to, to Vernon Herbert Blackman, [Fellow fo the Royal Society][8 July 1898]
NLB/18/25Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to V H Blackman23 December 1898
NLB/17/66Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society11 July 1898
RR/22/16Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Transmission of death excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder BoseDecember 1915
RR/14/70Letter from William Abbott Herdman, to Edwin Ray Lankester, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman1 June 1898
RR/24/17Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Some effects of organic growth-promoting substances (auximones) on the growth of Lemna minor in mineral culture solutions' by W B Bottomley[January 1917]
RR/38/135Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Investigations of the cell-wall substances of plants, with special reference to the chemical changes taking place during lignification' by Samuel Barnett Schryver and E J CandlinJuly 1928
RR/35/21Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'A consideration of some attempts to analyse growth curves' by George Edward BriggsNovember 1927
NLB/57/19Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee2 July 1919
RR/39/34Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration.—XX. The energetic efficiency of photosynthesis in green plants: Some new data and a discussion of the problems' by George Edward Briggs20 March 1929
RR/57/26Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The action of sodium nitrate upon the infection of Lucerne root-hairs by nodule bacteria' by Henry Gerard Thornton and John Russell5 November 1935
RR/62/107Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Respiration of barley plants IV. Protein catabolism and the formation of amides in starving leaves' by E W Yemm[January 1937]
RR/47/44Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The presence of citrinin in crotalaria isparta' by A J Ewart14 December 1932
NLB/66/855Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS29 July 1924
EC/1913/01Blackman, Vernon Herbert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/22/21Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The influence of auximones on the growth of Lenna Minor' by W B BottomleyJanuary 1916
NLB/52/551Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor John Bertland Farmer, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS11 January 1916
RR/14/9Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'On the cytological features of fertilization and related phenomena in Pinus silvestris L' by Vernon Herbert Blackman21 June 1898
NLB/67New Letter Book volume 67, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 September 1924-23 April 1925
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/14/67Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman13 May 1898
RR/52/138Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on two papers 'The respiration of barley plants I—Methods for the determination of carbohydrates in leaves' and 'The respiration of barley plants II—Carbohydrate concentration, and carbon dioxide production in starving leaves' by Edmund W YemmJanuary 1935
RR/67/57Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The structure of ‘ineffective’ nodules and its influence on nitrogen fixation' by H K Chen15 April 1940
RR/51/13Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on plant respiration - III—The Relationship between the respiration in air and in nitrogen of certain seeds during germination (a) seeds in which fats constitute the chief food' by William Leach and Kenneth W Dent[June 1934]
RR/59/90Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Genetical and taxonomic investigations in the Genus Oenothera' by Reginald Ruggles Gates[March 1936]
NLB/16/884Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Secretaries, Linnean Society, Burlington House, W.28 June 1898
RR/14/72Letter from George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman20 June 1898
RR/14/71Referee's report by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman18 June 1898
AP/73/15Unpublished paper, 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman1898
RR/24/16Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The isolation from peat of certain nucleic acid derivatives' by W B Bottomley[June 1917]
RR/14/69Referee's report by William Abbott Herdman, on a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackmannd [1898]
RR/45/85Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on two papers 'Analytic studies in plant respiration. IV.—The relation of the respiration of potatoes to the concentration of sugars and to the accumulation of a depressant at low temperatures. Part I.—The effect of temperature-history on the respiration/sugar relation' and 'Analytic studies in plan respiration. V.—The relation of the respiration of potatoes to the concentration of sugars and to the accumulation of a depressant at low temperatures. Part II.—The form of the normal respiration/sugar relation and the mechanism of depression' by John Barker[October 1932]
RR/54/23Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on plant respiration IV— The relation between the respiration in air and in nitrogen of certain seeds during germination, (b) seeds in which carbohydrates constitute the chief food reserve' by William Elford LeachDecember 1935
RR/14/10Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, on a paper 'On the cytological features of fertilization and related phenomena in Pinus silvestris L' by Vernon Herbert Blackman26 June 1898
RR/14/74Letter from Edwin Ray Lankester, to Mr Harrison, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman23 June 1898
RR/14/75Letter from George Robert Milne Murray, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman23 June 1898
RR/22/28Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The rate of absorption of various phenolic solutions by seeds of Hordeum vulgare, and the factors governing the rate of diffusion of aqueous solutions across semipermeable membranes' by Adrian John Brown and Frank TinkerSeptember 1915
RR/24/14Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on growth and movement in plants by means of the high magnification crescograph' by Jagadis Chunder Bose31 December 1917
RR/31/69Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Conduction of excitation in stem and leaf of Mimosa pudica' by R Snow[May 1924]
RR/32/28Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The relation between the devlopment, structure and functioning of the nodules on Vicia faba, as influenced by the presence or absence of boron in the nutrient medium' by Winifred Brenchley and Henry Gerard ThorntonJanuary 1925
RR/33/68Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The aloinae: a cytological study, with especial reference to the form and size of the chromosomes' by Nesta FergusonFebruary 1926
RR/34/115Referee's report by Arthur Harden, on a paper 'The isolation of some hitherto undescribed products of hydrolysis of proteins.— Part III' by Samuel Barnett Schryver, H W Buston and Vernon Herbert Blackman[July 1926]
RR/36/16Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. XVII.—The diurnal rhythm of assimilation in leaves of cherry laurel at “limiting” concentrations of carbon dioxide' by Ernest John Maskell17 November 1927
RR/36/17Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. XVIII.—The relation between stomatal opening and assimilation.—A critical study of assimilation rates and porometer rates in leaves of Cherry Laurel' by Ernest John Maskell[1927]
RR/37/82Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration. XIX.-The effect of variations of carbon dioxide supply upon the rate of assimilation of submerged water plants' by William Owen JamesFebruary 1928
RR/39/51Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The life-history, cytology and method of infection of Plasmodiophora brassicæ Woron., the cause of finger-and-toe disease of cabbages and other crucifers' by W R Ivimey Cook and E J Schwartz[October 1929]
RR/47/112Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on plant respiration. I .— The course of respiration of lathyrus odoratus during germination of the seed and the early development of the seedling' by Walter Stiles and William LeachJune 1932
RR/48/113Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Infection by Bacteria radicicola in relation to the microchemistry of the host's cell walls' by Elizabeth McCoy26 February 1932
RR/51/83Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on plant respiration. II.?Variations in the respiratory quotient during germination of seeds with different food reserves' by Walter Stiles and William Leach[July 1933]
RR/55/105Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The internal mechanics of the chromosomes II—Prophase pairing at meiosis in Fritillaria' by Cyril Dean Darlington26 March 1935
RR/55/134Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The cytology of trisomic mutations in a wild species of Oenothera' by Reginald Ruggles Gates and H K NandiFebruary 1935
RR/62/57Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The abnormal structure induced in nodules on lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) by the supply of sodium nitrate to the host plant' by Henry Gerard Thornton and Joyce E Rudorf[February 1936]
RR/62/108Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Respiration of barley plants III—Protein catabolism in starving leaves' by E W Yemm27 January 1937
RR/67/58Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The growth of nodule bacteria in the expressed juices from legume roots bearing effective and ineffective nodules' by H K Chen, Hugh Nicol and Henry Gerard ThorntonJuly 1940
RR/68/109Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Competition between related strains of nodule bacteria and its influence on infection of the legume host' by Hugh Nicol and Henry Gerard Thornton13 March 1941
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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