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Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Physiological observations made on Pike's Peak, Colorado, with special reference to adaptation to low barometric pressures' by Claude Gordon Douglas, John Scott Haldane, Yandell Henderson and Edward C Schneider

Reference number: RR/19/38

Date: October 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests modifications to and criticisms of the text. Considers parts of the paper will be controversial.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1913]

Endorsed on verso as received 7 August 1912.

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October 1912
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Joseph Barcroft, Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Physiological observations made on Pike's Peak, Colorado, with special reference to adaptation to low barometric pressures' by Claude Gordon Douglas, John Scott Haldane, Yandell Henderson and Edward C Schneider, October 1912, RR/19/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_38/referees-report-by-joseph-barcroft-on-a-paper-physiological-observations-made-on-pikes-peak-colorado-with-special-reference-to-adaptation-to-low-barometric-pressures-by-claude-gordon-douglas-john-scott-haldane-yandell-henderson-and-edward-c-schneider, accessed on 16 January 2025

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