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Referee's report by William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'The origin and destiny of cholesterol in the animal organism. Part I. -On the so-called hippocoprosterol' by Charles Dorée and J A Gardner

Reference number: RR/17/151

Date: January 1908

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the authors pick one name for the new substance, as the paper contains many versions - cholesterol, cholesterine and cholesteral.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 14 January 1908.

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RR/17/151
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January 1908
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William Dobinson Halliburton, Referee's report by William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'The origin and destiny of cholesterol in the animal organism. Part I. -On the so-called hippocoprosterol' by Charles Dorée and J A Gardner, January 1908, RR/17/151, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_151/referees-report-by-william-dobinson-halliburton-on-a-paper-the-origin-and-destiny-of-cholesterol-in-the-animal-organism-part-i-on-the-so-called-hippocoprosterol-by-charles-dorée-and-j-a-gardner, accessed on 20 January 2025

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