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Referee's report by Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, on a paper 'Chemoreceptivity of Drosophila melanogaster' by Michael Begg and Lancelot Thomas Hogben

Reference number: RR/68/430

Date: 1944

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds the introduction misleading. Refers to work of J Marshall and Norman Eugene McIndoo.

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 the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

No received date.

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RR/68/430
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1944
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Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, Referee's report by Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, on a paper 'Chemoreceptivity of Drosophila melanogaster' by Michael Begg and Lancelot Thomas Hogben, 1944, RR/68/430, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_430/referees-report-by-vincent-brian-wigglesworth-on-a-paper-chemoreceptivity-of-drosophila-melanogaster-by-michael-begg-and-lancelot-thomas-hogben, accessed on 16 September 2024

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