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Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'The role of specialized nerve terminals in cutaneous sensibility' by E Hagen, H Knoche, D C Sinclair and G Weddell

Reference number: RR/78/78

Date: 14 December 1952

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Sectional committee: Physiology and Medical Sciences

Paper reference code: B56

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Hodgkin writes: 'I am not happy about the summary which gives the author's conclusions but does not really summarize the facts on which they are bound. The last sentence of the summary seems to me too vague for inclusion in a synopsis'.

[Published in Proceedings B, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/78/78
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14 December 1952
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Referee's report by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, on a paper 'The role of specialized nerve terminals in cutaneous sensibility' by E Hagen, H Knoche, D C Sinclair and G Weddell, 14 December 1952, RR/78/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_78_78/referees-report-by-alan-lloyd-hodgkin-on-a-paper-the-role-of-specialized-nerve-terminals-in-cutaneous-sensibility-by-e-hagen-h-knoche-d-c-sinclair-and-g-weddell, accessed on 24 January 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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