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Referee's report by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, on a paper 'On the secretion of saliva, chiefly on the secretion of salts in it' by John Newport Langley and H M Fletcher

Reference number: RR/10/281

Date: 1888

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Criticises the use of pilocarpin in the experiments.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889]

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RR/10/281
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1888
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Walter Holbrook Gaskell

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Walter Holbrook Gaskell, Referee's report by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, on a paper 'On the secretion of saliva, chiefly on the secretion of salts in it' by John Newport Langley and H M Fletcher, 1888, RR/10/281, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_281/referees-report-by-walter-holbrook-gaskell-on-a-paper-on-the-secretion-of-saliva-chiefly-on-the-secretion-of-salts-in-it-by-john-newport-langley-and-h-m-fletcher, accessed on 18 July 2026

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