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Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'An analysis of the mechanism of oestrogenic activity' by Nicholas T Werthessen and Gregory Pincus

Reference number: RR/65/272

Date: July 1938

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The formulae and names are correct. A reference should be made to the act that the oesteogenic activity that was observed.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 29 July 1938.

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July 1938
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Robert Robinson, Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'An analysis of the mechanism of oestrogenic activity' by Nicholas T Werthessen and Gregory Pincus, July 1938, RR/65/272, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_272/referees-report-by-robert-robinson-on-a-paper-an-analysis-of-the-mechanism-of-oestrogenic-activity-by-nicholas-t-werthessen-and-gregory-pincus, accessed on 21 January 2026

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