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Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'Relationships between chemical composition of vegetable seed fats and their botanical origin' by Thomas Percy Hilditch

Reference number: RR/37/70

Date: May 1928

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The title should be changed, as it doesn't convey the content of the paper. Recommends using the title, 'The chemical composition of vegetable seed fats in relation to the natural orders of plants' instead.

[Title has been changed according to the referee's suggestion].

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1928 under the title 'The chemical composition of vegetable seed fats in relation to the natural orders of plants'].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 May 1928.

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RR/37/70
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May 1928
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Frederick Frost Blackman, Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'Relationships between chemical composition of vegetable seed fats and their botanical origin' by Thomas Percy Hilditch, May 1928, RR/37/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_37_70/referees-report-by-frederick-frost-blackman-on-a-paper-relationships-between-chemical-composition-of-vegetable-seed-fats-and-their-botanical-origin-by-thomas-percy-hilditch, accessed on 21 May 2025

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