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Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'A theory of partial osmotic pressures and membrane equilibria, with special reference to the application of Dalton's Law to haemoglobin solutions in the presence of salts' by Gilbert Smithson Adair

Reference number: RR/35/2

Date: 11 January 1928

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper is 'verbose and contains an unnecessarily elaborate discussion'. The paper should be reduced 'at least 33 percent'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 January 1928.

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RR/35/2
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11 January 1928
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2 pages
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Frederick George Donnan

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Frederick George Donnan, Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'A theory of partial osmotic pressures and membrane equilibria, with special reference to the application of Dalton's Law to haemoglobin solutions in the presence of salts' by Gilbert Smithson Adair, 11 January 1928, RR/35/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_2/referees-report-by-frederick-george-donnan-on-a-paper-a-theory-of-partial-osmotic-pressures-and-membrane-equilibria-with-special-reference-to-the-application-of-daltons-law-to-haemoglobin-solutions-in-the-presence-of-salts-by-gilbert-smithson-adair, accessed on 22 January 2025

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