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Letter from Robert Hill, on a paper 'Verdohaem and 'Verdoglobins'' by E C Foulkes, R Lemberg and P Purdom, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/74/41

Date: 23 October 1950

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Paper reference code: B33

Hill apologises for the delay in returning his report on the paper, and endeavours to send them in the next ten days. He suggests communicating directly with Lemberg regarding his paper, as it is currently too long for the Proceedings and 'not suitable' for the Philosophical Transactions.

Written at Vatches, Barton, Cambridge [England].

[Published in Proceedings B, 1951].

Endorsed on recto as received 25 October 1950.

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RR/74/41
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23 October 1950
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Robert Hill, Letter from Robert Hill, on a paper 'Verdohaem and 'Verdoglobins'' by E C Foulkes, R Lemberg and P Purdom, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society, 23 October 1950, RR/74/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_41/letter-from-robert-hill-on-a-paper-verdohaem-and-verdoglobins-by-e-c-foulkes-r-lemberg-and-p-purdom-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 06 October 2026

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