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Referee's report by Henry Gerard Thornton, on a paper 'An investigation of the nature of certain adaptive changes in bacteria' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and S Jackson

Reference number: RR/72/160

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. He doesn't entirely agree with the conclusions but the paper is interesting and helpful.

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

Date received not given.

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1949
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Henry Gerard Thornton, Referee's report by Henry Gerard Thornton, on a paper 'An investigation of the nature of certain adaptive changes in bacteria' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and S Jackson, 1949, RR/72/160, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_160/referees-report-by-henry-gerard-thornton-on-a-paper-an-investigation-of-the-nature-of-certain-adaptive-changes-in-bacteria-by-cyril-norman-hinshelwood-and-s-jackson, accessed on 03 December 2024

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