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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical polarization of frog skin by direct currents' by O Gatty

Reference number: RR/67/185

Date: 1940

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, if reduced. It is difficult to understand what the results of the work really are. No light is thrown on biological processes or structures.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1941].

No received date given.

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RR/67/185
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1940
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2 pages
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Archibald Vivian Hill

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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical polarization of frog skin by direct currents' by O Gatty, 1940, RR/67/185, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_185/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-the-electrical-polarization-of-frog-skin-by-direct-currents-by-o-gatty, accessed on 11 April 2026

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