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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Gives criticism of the experimental methods. Suggests the paper be referred to Horace Taberer Brown.

Subject: Botany

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1894]

Reference number
RR/12/118
Earliest possible date
22 January 1894
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Sidney Howard Vines

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Sidney Howard Vines, Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'Researches on the germination of the pollen grain and the nutrition of the pollen tube' by Joseph Reynolds Green, 22 January 1894, RR/12/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_118/referees-report-by-sydney-howard-vines-on-a-paper-researches-on-the-germination-of-the-pollen-grain-and-the-nutrition-of-the-pollen-tube-by-joseph-reynolds-green, accessed on 20 January 2026

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