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Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'The distribution in wheat, rice, and maize rains of the substance, the deficiency of which a diet causes polyneuritis in birds and beri-beri in man' by Harriette Chick and E Margaret Hume

Reference number: RR/24/30

Date: January 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests no delay in publication, as similar work is being done in America.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 30 January 1917.

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RR/24/30
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January 1917
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Frederick Gowland Hopkins

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Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'The distribution in wheat, rice, and maize rains of the substance, the deficiency of which a diet causes polyneuritis in birds and beri-beri in man' by Harriette Chick and E Margaret Hume, January 1917, RR/24/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_30/referees-report-by-frederick-gowland-hopkins-on-a-paper-the-distribution-in-wheat-rice-and-maize-rains-of-the-substance-the-deficiency-of-which-a-diet-causes-polyneuritis-in-birds-and-beri-beri-in-man-by-harriette-chick-and-e-margaret-hume, accessed on 13 May 2025

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