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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

Reference number: RR/11/29

Date: 1891

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The Royal Society should wait for the second part of the paper to be submitted, before it decides to publish this one. The paper 'does not enable the reader to form an independent judgement of the value of the differences in the action of the several nitrates'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1893].

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RR/11/29
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1891
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Report on paper
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6 pages
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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, 1891, RR/11/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_29/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, accessed on 23 March 2025

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