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Referee's report by G S Hartley, on a paper 'The dissociation constants of the carboxyl and hydroxyl groups in some insoluble and sol-forming polysaccharides' by S P Saric and R K Schofield

Reference number: RR/68/501

Date: 29 November 1944

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The authors have not given reference to a vast amount of relevant literature. Suggests adding reference to, or demonstration of, the complexity which the technique is capable of. Comments on the chemistry discussed in the introduction. Refers to work of Niels Janniksen Bjerrum, Christopher Kelk Ingold, G S Hartley and J W Roe. Would like to meet the author R K Schofield on the 6th December, has no objection to waiving his anonymity.

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']

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RR/68/501
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29 November 1944
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2 pages
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Referee's report by G S Hartley, on a paper 'The dissociation constants of the carboxyl and hydroxyl groups in some insoluble and sol-forming polysaccharides' by S P Saric and R K Schofield, 29 November 1944, RR/68/501, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_501/referees-report-by-g-s-hartley-on-a-paper-the-dissociation-constants-of-the-carboxyl-and-hydroxyl-groups-in-some-insoluble-and-sol-forming-polysaccharides-by-s-p-saric-and-r-k-schofield, accessed on 19 August 2026

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