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Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A method of breaking down the body weights of living persons into terms of extracellular fluid, cell mass and fat, and some applications of it to physiology and medicine' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May Widdowson

Reference number: RR/74/39

Date: 25 June 1950

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Sectional committee: Physiology and Medical Sciences

Paper reference code: B30

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Hill suggests the paper could be improved by more attention given to 'style and expression'.

[Published in Proceedings B, 1951].

Date received not given.

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RR/74/39
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Archibald Vivian Hill, Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A method of breaking down the body weights of living persons into terms of extracellular fluid, cell mass and fat, and some applications of it to physiology and medicine' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May Widdowson, 25 June 1950, RR/74/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_39/referees-report-by-archibald-vivian-hill-on-a-paper-a-method-of-breaking-down-the-body-weights-of-living-persons-into-terms-of-extracellular-fluid-cell-mass-and-fat-and-some-applications-of-it-to-physiology-and-medicine-by-robert-alexander-mccance-and-elsie-may-widdowson, accessed on 14 July 2026

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