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Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on two papers 'Borohydrates.—Part II' and 'Borohydrates.—Part III' by Morris William Travers and others

Reference number: RR/21/151

Date: June 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper contains one fact, previously published, upon which numerous hypotheses are built, ad experiments conducted, 'which in many cases are fundamentally wrong'. Refers to work by Stock [?] and Kuss [?].

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 2 June 1914.

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RR/21/151
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June 1914
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Herbert Brereton Baker, Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on two papers 'Borohydrates.—Part II' and 'Borohydrates.—Part III' by Morris William Travers and others, June 1914, RR/21/151, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_151/referees-report-by-herbert-brereton-baker-on-two-papers-borohydratespart-ii-and-borohydratespart-iii-by-morris-william-travers-and-others, accessed on 21 January 2025

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