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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The mechanical efficiency of frog’s muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill to Charles Robert Harington

Reference number: RR/67/233

Date: 30 May 1939

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Asks Harington what action should be taken with the paper.

Harington replies that it should be published without further reference.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1939].

Endorsed on recto as received 5 June 1939.

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RR/67/233
Earliest possible date
30 May 1939
Physical description
Memorandum on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript
Typescript

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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The mechanical efficiency of frog’s muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill to Charles Robert Harington, 30 May 1939, RR/67/233, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_233/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-the-mechanical-efficiency-of-frogs-muscle-by-archibald-vivian-hill-to-charles-robert-harington, accessed on 20 April 2025

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