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Letter from Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'The transplantation of normal tissues: with special reference to auto- and homotransplants of thyroid and spleen in the anterior chamber of the eye, and subcutaneously, in guinea-pigs' by Michael Francis Addison Woodruff and Hazel G Woodruff to Edward James Salisbury

Reference number: RR/72/279

Date: 02 January 1950

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The re-writing of the paper isn't very radical and the documentation is still incomplete, there is such a wealth of useful information in the paper. Additionally, the two other referees have deemed the paper suitable for publication so he won't stand in the way of it. Asks that his original report by withdrawn.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 2 January 1950.

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RR/72/279
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02 January 1950
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Peter Brian Medawar, Letter from Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'The transplantation of normal tissues: with special reference to auto- and homotransplants of thyroid and spleen in the anterior chamber of the eye, and subcutaneously, in guinea-pigs' by Michael Francis Addison Woodruff and Hazel G Woodruff to Edward James Salisbury, 02 January 1950, RR/72/279, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_279/letter-from-peter-brian-medawar-on-a-paper-the-transplantation-of-normal-tissues-with-special-reference-to-auto-and-homotransplants-of-thyroid-and-spleen-in-the-anterior-chamber-of-the-eye-and-subcutaneously-in-guinea-pigs-by-michael-francis-addison-woodruff-and-hazel-g-woodruff-to-edward-james-salisbury, accessed on 03 December 2024

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