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Copy letter from A V H [Archibald Vivian Hill] to [David] Keilin, regarding a paper 'On the nature and permeability of Chitin, III - The nature and origin of the membranes surrounding the developing eggs of Homarus vulgaris' by [Charles Maurice] Yonge

Reference number: RR/W/5/64

Date: 07 April 1937

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Paper reference code: B.121

Asks Keilin to act as referee for Yonge's paper. Explains the complexity associated with the paper thus far, referring to correspondence with [Edgar Johnson] Allen, James Gray, and [William Ringrose Gelston] Atkins [see RR/W/5/52, RR/W/5/58, RR/W/5/57, RR/W/5/62, RR/W/5/63]. Atkins is qualified to act as referee, but has already done so 'unofficially'. Is unsure how to proceed. Asks Keilin to read the paper and speak with [Joseph] Needham about it. Apologises for the inconvenience, explaining 'I do not know any other Fellow except yourself to ask', as [Carl Frederick Abel] Pantin's 'opinion would scarcely be independent' from Gray's. Yonge's 1936 paper in Proceedings [of the Royal Society] also caused 'a great deal of trouble'.

[Not published, but part I and II published in the Proceedings B in 1932 and 1936].

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RR/W/5/64
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07 April 1937
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2 pages
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David Keilin, James Gray, Copy letter from A V H [Archibald Vivian Hill] to [David] Keilin, regarding a paper 'On the nature and permeability of Chitin, III - The nature and origin of the membranes surrounding the developing eggs of Homarus vulgaris' by [Charles Maurice] Yonge, 07 April 1937, RR/W/5/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_64/copy-letter-from-a-v-h-archibald-vivian-hill-to-david-keilin-regarding-a-paper-on-the-nature-and-permeability-of-chitin-iii-the-nature-and-origin-of-the-membranes-surrounding-the-developing-eggs-of-homarus-vulgaris-by-charles-maurice-yonge, accessed on 14 June 2026

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