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Referee's report by Honor Bridget Fell, on a paper 'Studies on the problem of corneal homografts' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Thelma Boswell

Reference number: RR/78/79

Date: 16 December 1952

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Paper reference code: B57

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Fell remarks the paper is valuable, however one 'defect' should be amended before publication. Only two grafts were placed near the limbus and Fell argues 'the authors are not justified in drawing conclusions from only two cases'.

[Published in Proceedings B, 1953].

Date received not given.

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Honor Bridget Fell, Referee's report by Honor Bridget Fell, on a paper 'Studies on the problem of corneal homografts' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Thelma Boswell, 16 December 1952, RR/78/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_78_79/referees-report-by-honor-bridget-fell-on-a-paper-studies-on-the-problem-of-corneal-homografts-by-rupert-everett-billingham-and-thelma-boswell, accessed on 08 February 2026

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