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Copy letter from A V H [Archibald Vivian Hill] to [Edgar Johnson] Allen, 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/5/65

Date: 21 April 1937

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Paper reference code: B.121

States that the second referee is also 'entirely against publication'. Sends abstracts from both referees [James Gray and David Keilin], who came to their conclusions independently [see RR/W/5/66]. Recommends the paper be withdrawn, and that Allen has 'a talk with Yonge sometime about what he is doing'.

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

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RR/W/5/65
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21 April 1937
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Carbon

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James Gray

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David Keilin

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James Gray, David Keilin, Copy letter from A V H [Archibald Vivian Hill] to [Edgar Johnson] Allen, 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, 21 April 1937, RR/W/5/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_65/copy-letter-from-a-v-h-archibald-vivian-hill-to-edgar-johnson-allen-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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