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Paper reference code: A175

Travers considers the referees' feedback in more detail and sets out why he won't accept any of it, believing it to be too 'Political'. Ends by saying 'If the Society isn't prepared to accept the paper, I suggest another referee'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1954].

Received 10 November 1952.

Reference number
RR/77/209
Earliest possible date
07 November 1952
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Typescript

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Letter from Morris William Travers to D C Martin, concerning a paper 'The thermal decomposition of normal paraffin hydrocarbons' by C G Silcocks and Morris William Travers, 07 November 1952, RR/77/209, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_209/letter-from-morris-william-travers-to-d-c-martin-concerning-a-paper-the-thermal-decomposition-of-normal-paraffin-hydrocarbons-by-c-g-silcocks-and-morris-william-travers, accessed on 15 June 2026

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