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Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'Experimental inquiry into the composition of some of the animals fed and slaughtered as human food' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert

Reference number: RR/3/173

Date: 28 October 1858

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, it is a valuable contribution to the existing statistics.

Subject: Zoology/Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1859].

Reference number
RR/3/173
Earliest possible date
28 October 1858
Physical description
Letter on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter, Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'Experimental inquiry into the composition of some of the animals fed and slaughtered as human food' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, 28 October 1858, RR/3/173, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_173/referees-report-by-william-benjamin-carpenter-on-a-paper-experimental-inquiry-into-the-composition-of-some-of-the-animals-fed-and-slaughtered-as-human-food-by-john-bennet-lawes-and-joseph-henry-gilbert, accessed on 21 January 2025

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