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Referee's report by Claude Gordon Douglas, on a paper 'Individual variations in ability to acclimatize to high altitude' by Ancel Keys, Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, W H Forbes and Ross A McFarland

Reference number: RR/65/152

Date: 08 May 1938

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper will form a basis for further investigation.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 10 May 1938

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RR/65/152
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08 May 1938
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Claude Gordon Douglas, Referee's report by Claude Gordon Douglas, on a paper 'Individual variations in ability to acclimatize to high altitude' by Ancel Keys, Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, W H Forbes and Ross A McFarland, 08 May 1938, RR/65/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_152/referees-report-by-claude-gordon-douglas-on-a-paper-individual-variations-in-ability-to-acclimatize-to-high-altitude-by-ancel-keys-bryan-harold-cabot-matthews-w-h-forbes-and-ross-a-mcfarland, accessed on 20 January 2026

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