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Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The isolation from peat of certain nucleic acid derivatives' by W B Bottomley

Reference number: RR/24/16

Date: June 1917

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is 'purely chemical'. It's 'value depends solely on the suitability of the methods used and of the tests applied'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1917]

Endorsed on verso as received 25 June 1917.

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RR/24/16
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June 1917
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2 pages
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Vernon Herbert Blackman

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Vernon Herbert Blackman, Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The isolation from peat of certain nucleic acid derivatives' by W B Bottomley, June 1917, RR/24/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_16/referees-report-by-vernon-herbert-blackman-on-a-paper-the-isolation-from-peat-of-certain-nucleic-acid-derivatives-by-w-b-bottomley, accessed on 11 April 2026

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