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Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Upon the action of gravity on bacterium zopfii' by Rubert William Boyce and A Ernest Evans

Reference number: RR/11/231

Date: 24 March 1893

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, but should be published in Proceedings instead. The paper is 'good and interesting - but very slight'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1893].

Reference number
RR/11/231
Earliest possible date
24 March 1893
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edwin Ray Lankester

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Edwin Ray Lankester, Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Upon the action of gravity on bacterium zopfii' by Rubert William Boyce and A Ernest Evans, 24 March 1893, RR/11/231, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_231/referees-report-by-edwin-ray-lankester-on-a-paper-upon-the-action-of-gravity-on-bacterium-zopfii-by-rubert-william-boyce-and-a-ernest-evans, accessed on 13 July 2025

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