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Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'The delayed lethal effect of radium on tissue cultures in vitro' by F G Spear

Reference number: RR/40/99

Date: November 1929

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. Although he doesn't normally object to German words in English papers, he detests 'the use of out wander and out wandering for emigrate and emigration as an outrage on the language'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 November 1929.

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RR/40/99
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November 1929
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2 pages
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James Alexander Murray

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James Alexander Murray, Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'The delayed lethal effect of radium on tissue cultures in vitro' by F G Spear, November 1929, RR/40/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_99/referees-report-by-james-alexander-murray-on-a-paper-the-delayed-lethal-effect-of-radium-on-tissue-cultures-in-vitro-by-f-g-spear, accessed on 07 October 2024

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