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Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons.—Part I' by James Wilfred Cook, I Hieger, Ernest Laurence Kennaway and William Valentine Mayneord

Reference number: RR/47/1

Date: May 1932

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The paper is already brief enough and doesn't require shortening. The edges of photographs should be trimmed.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 May 1932.

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RR/47/1
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May 1932
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2 pages
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Arthur Edwin Boycott, Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons.—Part I' by James Wilfred Cook, I Hieger, Ernest Laurence Kennaway and William Valentine Mayneord, May 1932, RR/47/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_1/referees-report-by-arthur-edwin-boycott-on-a-paper-the-production-of-cancer-by-pure-hydrocarbonspart-i-by-james-wilfred-cook-i-hieger-ernest-laurence-kennaway-and-william-valentine-mayneord, accessed on 11 February 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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