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Referee's report by Ernest Laurence Kennaway on a paper 'Evidence of resistance to tumour growth in the offspring of immunized rats' by Sidney Russ and G M Scott

Reference number: RR/67/392

Date: May 1939

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The use of the word 'stock' could be omitted. There is no error in the work and the value of the data has been considered by Fisher. The result is important and he hoped the paper can be submitted to a geneticist.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1939, under the title 'Evidence of resistance to tumour grafts in the offspring of immunized rats'].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 May 1939.

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May 1939
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Ernest Laurence Kennaway, Referee's report by Ernest Laurence Kennaway on a paper 'Evidence of resistance to tumour growth in the offspring of immunized rats' by Sidney Russ and G M Scott, May 1939, RR/67/392, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_392/referees-report-by-ernest-laurence-kennaway-on-a-paper-evidence-of-resistance-to-tumour-growth-in-the-offspring-of-immunized-rats-by-sidney-russ-and-g-m-scott, accessed on 20 May 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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