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Referee's report by Edward Mellanby, on a paper 'Crystalline anti-pernicious anaemia factor from liver' by K H Fantes, J E Page, L F J Parker and Ernest Lester Smith

Reference number: RR/72/112

Date: 29 April 1949

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Sectional committee: Physiology

He isn' competent enough to comment on the paper. As far as he can see, the paper may be suitable for Proceedings. The authors should provide more evidence of the effects of the subatnce used.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1950].

Date received not given.

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29 April 1949
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Edward Mellanby, Referee's report by Edward Mellanby, on a paper 'Crystalline anti-pernicious anaemia factor from liver' by K H Fantes, J E Page, L F J Parker and Ernest Lester Smith, 29 April 1949, RR/72/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_112/referees-report-by-edward-mellanby-on-a-paper-crystalline-anti-pernicious-anaemia-factor-from-liver-by-k-h-fantes-j-e-page-l-f-j-parker-and-ernest-lester-smith, accessed on 06 December 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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