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Referee's report by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, on a paper 'The physiological action of the nitrites of the paraffin series, considered connection with their chemical constitution' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland Dunstan

Reference number: RR/11/130

Date: 1892

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the experiments were laborious and worthy of publication. The paper should be revised before publication to separate the general discussion part from the experimental details.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1893].

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RR/11/130
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1892
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Report 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 'The physiological action of the nitrites of the paraffin series, considered connection with their chemical constitution' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, 1892, RR/11/130, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_130/referees-report-by-walter-holbrook-gaskell-on-a-paper-the-physiological-action-of-the-nitrites-of-the-paraffin-series-considered-connection-with-their-chemical-constitution-by-john-theodore-cash-and-wyndham-rowland-dunstan, accessed on 24 June 2025

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