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Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'A study of the branched cells of the mammalian epidermis with special reference to the fate of their division products' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Peter Brian Medawar

Reference number: RR/78/69

Date: 21 October 1952

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Paper reference code: B48

Hogben comments on the paper, and recommends it should be published in a journal which publishes 'papers on the histology of malignant disease'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/78/69
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21 October 1952
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2 pages
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben, Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'A study of the branched cells of the mammalian epidermis with special reference to the fate of their division products' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Peter Brian Medawar, 21 October 1952, RR/78/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_78_69/referees-report-by-lancelot-thomas-hogben-on-a-paper-a-study-of-the-branched-cells-of-the-mammalian-epidermis-with-special-reference-to-the-fate-of-their-division-products-by-rupert-everett-billingham-and-peter-brian-medawar, accessed on 06 March 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.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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