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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A theory of tracheal respiration in insects' by Vincent Brian Wigglesworth

Reference number: RR/42/78

Date: February 1930

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The author should be asked to consider the possibility of 'surface tension exerting a considerable influence on the phenomenon'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 22 February 1930.

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RR/42/78
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February 1930
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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6 pages
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Archibald Vivian Hill

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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A theory of tracheal respiration in insects' by Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, February 1930, RR/42/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_42_78/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-a-theory-of-tracheal-respiration-in-insects-by-vincent-brian-wigglesworth, accessed on 15 January 2025

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