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Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Observations on the adjustment of the human body to muscular work' by N W MacKeith, Marcus Seymour Pembrey, W R Spurrell, E C Warner and W J Westlake

Reference number: RR/29/37

Date: June 1923

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full with modifications.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1923].

Endorsed on verso as received 1823.

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RR/29/37
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June 1923
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4 pages
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Joseph Barcroft

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Joseph Barcroft, Referee's report by Joseph Barcroft, on a paper 'Observations on the adjustment of the human body to muscular work' by N W MacKeith, Marcus Seymour Pembrey, W R Spurrell, E C Warner and W J Westlake, June 1923, RR/29/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_37/referees-report-by-joseph-barcroft-on-a-paper-observations-on-the-adjustment-of-the-human-body-to-muscular-work-by-n-w-mackeith-marcus-seymour-pembrey-w-r-spurrell-e-c-warner-and-w-j-westlake, accessed on 19 July 2025

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