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Referee's report by Hugh Kerr Anderson, on a paper 'On the alleged increase of cancer' by Walter Francis Willcox

Reference number: RR/24/93

Date: February 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. As the author wishes to republish the paper in the United States, and the large number of tables would make publication costly, suggests the author publish just an abstract in the Proceedings.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 22 February 1917.

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RR/24/93
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February 1917
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2 pages
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Hugh Kerr Anderson, Referee's report by Hugh Kerr Anderson, on a paper 'On the alleged increase of cancer' by Walter Francis Willcox, February 1917, RR/24/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_93/referees-report-by-hugh-kerr-anderson-on-a-paper-on-the-alleged-increase-of-cancer-by-walter-francis-willcox, accessed on 27 April 2025

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