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Letter from Herbert Davenport Kay, on a paper 'The role of depot fat in the hypothalamic control of food intake in the rat' by G C Kennedy, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/78/25

Date: 11 August 1952

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Paper reference code: B19

Refers to the recommendation that the paper should be shortened.

Written at The National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading [England].

[Published in Proceedings B, 1953].

Endorsed on recto as received 12 August 1952.

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RR/78/25
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11 August 1952
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Herbert Davenport Kay

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Herbert Davenport Kay, Letter from Herbert Davenport Kay, on a paper 'The role of depot fat in the hypothalamic control of food intake in the rat' by G C Kennedy, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society, 11 August 1952, RR/78/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_78_25/letter-from-herbert-davenport-kay-on-a-paper-the-role-of-depot-fat-in-the-hypothalamic-control-of-food-intake-in-the-rat-by-g-c-kennedy-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 10 October 2026

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