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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The rate of distribution of dissolved gases within the blood' by Francis John Woresley Roughton

Reference number: RR/42/35

Date: November 1931

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The general idea of the paper is reasonable and the results are important. He cannot understand the mathematics in the paper, so the paper should be referred to a more competent mathematician, like Charles Galton Darwin.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 November 1931.

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RR/42/35
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November 1931
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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The rate of distribution of dissolved gases within the blood' by Francis John Woresley Roughton, November 1931, RR/42/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_42_35/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-the-rate-of-distribution-of-dissolved-gases-within-the-blood-by-francis-john-woresley-roughton, accessed on 12 June 2026

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