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Reference numberRR/21/18
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Alfred Daniel Hall, on a paper 'Analyses of agricultural yield. Part I.—The spacing experiment with Egyptian cottom, 1912' by William Lawrence Balls and Francis S Holton
Date25 May 1914
DescriptionSectional Committee: Botany

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the paper pretentious, 'as though the writer had formed a much exaggerated idea of the importance of his communication and was anxious to communicate that feelings of importance to his readers'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1915]

Endorsed on recto as received 26 May 1914.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstb.1915.0003 Vol.206 1915
Related records in the catalogueRR/21/19
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6149Hall; Sir; Alfred Daniel (1864 - 1942)1864 - 1942
NA1369Balls; William Lawrence (1882 - 1960)1882 - 1960
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