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Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'Nuclear components of dividing cells' by P M B Walker and Helen B Yates

Reference number: RR/78/21

Date: 01 April 1952

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Paper reference code: B18

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Medawar comments: 'The writers should specify the biological material more accurately; e.g. what cells were photographed in 'mouse spleen [?]'. The actual text of the paper should contain a statement about the types of explants used and the varieties of cells [?] from them.'

[Published in Proceedings B, 1952].

Date received not given.

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RR/78/21
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01 April 1952
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Peter Brian Medawar, Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'Nuclear components of dividing cells' by P M B Walker and Helen B Yates, 01 April 1952, RR/78/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_78_21/referees-report-by-peter-brian-medawar-on-a-paper-nuclear-components-of-dividing-cells-by-p-m-b-walker-and-helen-b-yates, accessed on 19 July 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

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