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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the author makes assumptions about certain elements of the experiment.

Subject: Zoology/Chemistry

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1843].

Reference number
RR/1/203
Earliest possible date
27 October 1846
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Rigg

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Robert Rigg, Referee's report by George Owen Rees, on a paper 'Experiments relative to animal temperature, showing that there must be some source of animal heat besides the combustion of the carbon and the hydrogen contained in the food of animals' by Robert Rigg, 27 October 1846, RR/1/203, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_203/referees-report-by-george-owen-rees-on-a-paper-experiments-relative-to-animal-temperature-showing-that-there-must-be-some-source-of-animal-heat-besides-the-combustion-of-the-carbon-and-the-hydrogen-contained-in-the-food-of-animals-by-robert-rigg, accessed on 19 January 2025

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