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Referee's report by John Scott Haldane, on a paper 'The limit of high flying when breathing oxygen' by Leonard Erskine Hill

Reference number: RR/53/112

Date: February 1934

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Assumes Joseph Barcroft and Wing Commander Marshall gave consent for the experiments to be published. Suggests omitting the experiments on Mark Ridge, under the direction of Silbe Gorman and Robert Davis, who are not yet ready to publish.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 21 February 1934.

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RR/53/112
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February 1934
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John Scott Haldane, Referee's report by John Scott Haldane, on a paper 'The limit of high flying when breathing oxygen' by Leonard Erskine Hill, February 1934, RR/53/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_53_112/referees-report-by-john-scott-haldane-on-a-paper-the-limit-of-high-flying-when-breathing-oxygen-by-leonard-erskine-hill, accessed on 15 May 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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