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Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'Further observations on the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-­ measures. —Part I. Calamites, Calamostachys, and Sphenophyllum' by William Crawford Williamson and Dukinfield Henry Scott

Reference number: RR/12/266

Date: 16 April 1894

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', and agrees with the other referee with this opinion. Does not find the same repetition of figures that the other referee found. The figures are from different specimens with different details.

Subject:Botany, Geology, Palaeontology

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

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RR/12/266
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16 April 1894
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Isaac Bayley Balfour

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Isaac Bayley Balfour, Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'Further observations on the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-­ measures. —Part I. Calamites, Calamostachys, and Sphenophyllum' by William Crawford Williamson and Dukinfield Henry Scott, 16 April 1894, RR/12/266, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_266/referees-report-by-isaac-bayley-balfour-on-a-paper-further-observations-on-the-organization-of-the-fossil-plants-of-the-coal-measures-part-i-calamites-calamostachys-and-sphenophyllum-by-william-crawford-williamson-and-dukinfield-henry-scott, accessed on 07 February 2025

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