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Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'Acineta tuberosa: A study on the action of surface tension in determining the distribution of salts in living matter' by Archibald Byron Macallum

Reference number: RR/20/87

Date: 1913

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, would be better placed in the Proceedings, as it is 'much too spectulative'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1914].

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RR/20/87
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1913
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2 pages
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William Bate Hardy, Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'Acineta tuberosa: A study on the action of surface tension in determining the distribution of salts in living matter' by Archibald Byron Macallum, 1913, RR/20/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_87/referees-report-by-william-bate-hardy-on-a-paper-acineta-tuberosa-a-study-on-the-action-of-surface-tension-in-determining-the-distribution-of-salts-in-living-matter-by-archibald-byron-macallum, accessed on 14 March 2026

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