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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle

Reference number: RR/71/241

Date: 1948

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Sectional committee: Physiology and Medical Sciences

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He doesn't know enouigh about the anatomy of flies to criticise the paper is detail but the treatments seems 'sound, critical and convincing'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1948].

Date received not given.

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RR/71/241
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1948
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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle, 1948, RR/71/241, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_241/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-the-gyroscopic-mechanism-of-the-halteres-of-diptera-by-john-william-sutton-pringle, accessed on 05 March 2026

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