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Referee's report by William Scovell Savory, on a paper 'On the distribution of the fibres in the muscular tunics of the stomach in man and other mammalia' by James Bell Pettigrew

Reference number: RR/7/197

Date: 25 June 1872

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He 'can hardly admit there is so well established or so elaborately worked out as to entitle the paper, in its present form, to a place in the Philosophical Transactions'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1867].

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RR/7/197
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25 June 1872
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Report on paper
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4 pages
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William Scovell Savory

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William Scovell Savory, Referee's report by William Scovell Savory, on a paper 'On the distribution of the fibres in the muscular tunics of the stomach in man and other mammalia' by James Bell Pettigrew, 25 June 1872, RR/7/197, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_197/referees-report-by-william-scovell-savory-on-a-paper-on-the-distribution-of-the-fibres-in-the-muscular-tunics-of-the-stomach-in-man-and-other-mammalia-by-james-bell-pettigrew, accessed on 13 January 2025

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