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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Recovery heat in muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill to Charles Robert Harington

Reference number: RR/67/234

Date: 11 May 1939

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Asks Haringotn what he would like done with this paper, keeping in mind that he passed Hill's previous two papers without report.

Harington replies that he agrees to publication without sending the paper to a referee.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 15 May 1939.

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RR/67/234
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11 May 1939
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Memorandum on paper
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1 page
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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Recovery heat in muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill to Charles Robert Harington, 11 May 1939, RR/67/234, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_234/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-recovery-heat-in-muscle-by-archibald-vivian-hill-to-charles-robert-harington, accessed on 26 April 2025

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