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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper adds some interesting information to what is already known on the subject. The paper could be modified slightly before publication.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1892].

Reference number
RR/11/147
Earliest possible date
30 March 1892
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Newport Langley

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John Newport Langley, Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.–Observations on the structure, relations, progressive development, and growth, of the electric organ of the skate' by James Cossar Ewart, 30 March 1892, RR/11/147, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_147/referees-report-by-john-newport-langley-on-a-paper-the-electric-organ-of-the-skateobservations-on-the-structure-relations-progressive-development-and-growth-of-the-electric-organ-of-the-skate-by-james-cossar-ewart, accessed on 06 December 2025

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