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Referee's report by John Christopher Augustus Voelcker, on a paper 'Supplement to former paper, entitled—"Experimental inquiry into the composition of some of the animals fed and slaughtered as human food.”—Composition of the ash of the entire animals, and of certain separated parts' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert

Reference number: RR/9/156

Date: 23 July 1883

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a 'valuable addition to a previous paper by the same authors'.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883].

Reference number
RR/9/156
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23 July 1883
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Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Christopher Augustus Voelcker

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John Christopher Augustus Voelcker, Referee's report by John Christopher Augustus Voelcker, on a paper 'Supplement to former paper, entitled—"Experimental inquiry into the composition of some of the animals fed and slaughtered as human food.”—Composition of the ash of the entire animals, and of certain separated parts' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, 23 July 1883, RR/9/156, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_156/referees-report-by-john-christopher-augustus-voelcker-on-a-paper-supplement-to-former-paper-entitledexperimental-inquiry-into-the-composition-of-some-of-the-animals-fed-and-slaughtered-as-human-foodcomposition-of-the-ash-of-the-entire-animals-and-of-certain-separated-parts-by-john-bennet-lawes-and-joseph-henry-gilbert, accessed on 23 June 2025

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