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Referee's report by Henry Hallett Dale, on a paper 'The coagulation of protein by sunlight' by Elrid Gordon Young

Reference number: RR/26/155

Date: October 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The experiments are not always given adequate detail, whereas the technical information is often given in too much detail. Suggests the author make the purpose of the paper much clearer. Considers the paper to require considerable modification.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1922]

Endorsed on verso as received 8 October 1921.

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RR/26/155
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October 1921
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Hallett Dale, Referee's report by Henry Hallett Dale, on a paper 'The coagulation of protein by sunlight' by Elrid Gordon Young, October 1921, RR/26/155, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_155/referees-report-by-henry-hallett-dale-on-a-paper-the-coagulation-of-protein-by-sunlight-by-elrid-gordon-young, accessed on 13 May 2025

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