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Referee's report by James Peter Hill, on a paper 'Experiments on the development of chick and duck embryos, cultivated in vitro' by Conrad Hall Whaddington

Reference number: RR/44/127

Date: December 1931

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It 'represents a pioneer effort' and should be published. The paper would benefit from abbreviation. Some other modifications should be made.

Letter (dated 29 January 1932) states that the author has done his best to meet the modifications and the paper should be published.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 December 1931.

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RR/44/127
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December 1931
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Standardised form (type D), report on paper and letter on paper
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7 pages
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James Peter Hill, Referee's report by James Peter Hill, on a paper 'Experiments on the development of chick and duck embryos, cultivated in vitro' by Conrad Hall Whaddington, December 1931, RR/44/127, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_127/referees-report-by-james-peter-hill-on-a-paper-experiments-on-the-development-of-chick-and-duck-embryos-cultivated-in-vitro-by-conrad-hall-whaddington, accessed on 13 July 2025

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