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Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The electrical forces of mitosis and the origin of cancer' by Jessup, Baly, Goodbody and Prideaux

Reference number: RR/17/302

Date: July 1908

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the paper is highly speculative.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 July 1908.

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RR/17/302
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July 1908
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2 pages
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John Bretland Farmer, Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The electrical forces of mitosis and the origin of cancer' by Jessup, Baly, Goodbody and Prideaux, July 1908, RR/17/302, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_302/referees-report-by-john-bretland-farmer-on-a-paper-the-electrical-forces-of-mitosis-and-the-origin-of-cancer-by-jessup-baly-goodbody-and-prideaux, accessed on 25 March 2025

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