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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Heat production or cost of walking' by J S MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald

Reference number: RR/29/25

Date: November 1923

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The arithmetic is incorrect and it contains 'nothing worth publishing'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 21 November 1923.

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RR/29/25
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November 1923
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Archibald Vivian Hill

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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Heat production or cost of walking' by J S MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald, November 1923, RR/29/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_25/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-heat-production-or-cost-of-walking-by-j-s-macdonald-and-margaret-macdonald, accessed on 11 November 2025

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