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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Experiments on the inactivation of bacteriophage by radiations, and their bearing on the nature of bacteriophage' by D E Lea and M H Salaman to Joseph Barcroft

Reference number: RR/69/202

Date: 12 August 1945

Description

It has been suggested thst one biologist and one physicist should be asked to referee the paper. Asks if he will be willing to pass the paper if the reports are favourable.

Barcroft doesn't reply.

Contains note reminding the Assistant Secretary to ask Barcroft about the paper.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1946].

Reference number
RR/69/202
Earliest possible date
12 August 1945
Physical description
Memorandum on paper and note on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript
Typescript

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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Experiments on the inactivation of bacteriophage by radiations, and their bearing on the nature of bacteriophage' by D E Lea and M H Salaman to Joseph Barcroft, 12 August 1945, RR/69/202, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_202/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-experiments-on-the-inactivation-of-bacteriophage-by-radiations-and-their-bearing-on-the-nature-of-bacteriophage-by-d-e-lea-and-m-h-salaman-to-joseph-barcroft, accessed on 10 December 2025

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