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Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'A comparison of the activities antiseptics on bacteria and on leucocytes' by Alexander Fleming

Reference number: RR/28/132

Date: December 1923

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in its present form. Criticises the methods, apparatus and discussion.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' B, 1924]

Endorsed on verso as received 8 December 1923.

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RR/28/132
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December 1923
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4 pages
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John Charles Grant Ledingham, Referee's report by John Charles Grant Ledingham, on a paper 'A comparison of the activities antiseptics on bacteria and on leucocytes' by Alexander Fleming, December 1923, RR/28/132, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_132/referees-report-by-john-charles-grant-ledingham-on-a-paper-a-comparison-of-the-activities-antiseptics-on-bacteria-and-on-leucocytes-by-alexander-fleming, accessed on 11 March 2026

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