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Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'On the organisation of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part XVII' by William Crawford Williamson

Reference number: RR/10/395

Date: 10 March 1890

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is a continuation of a series by the same author also published in the Philosophical Transactions. The description could possibly be curtailed. 'There are a few expressions in the descriptive matter the excision of which I should recommend, as where the author characterises by the word "absurd" the opinions of those who differ from him'.

Subject: Botany, Geology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1890]

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RR/10/395
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10 March 1890
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4 pages
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Joseph Dalton Hooker, Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'On the organisation of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.—Part XVII' by William Crawford Williamson, 10 March 1890, RR/10/395, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_395/referees-report-by-joseph-dalton-hooker-on-a-paper-on-the-organisation-of-the-fossil-plants-of-the-coal-measurespart-xvii-by-william-crawford-williamson, accessed on 18 March 2025

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