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Referee's report by David Sharp, on a paper 'The pigments of the Pieridae: a contribution to the study of excretory substances which function in ornament' by Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Reference number: RR/12/332

Date: 26 November 1894

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Cannot comment on the parts dealing with chemistry, can only comment on the zoological sections. Refers to work by Griffiths [?] in Comptes Rendus, to which the author should make reference.

Subject: Physiology, Chemistry, Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1895]

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RR/12/332
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26 November 1894
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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David Sharp, Referee's report by David Sharp, on a paper 'The pigments of the Pieridae: a contribution to the study of excretory substances which function in ornament' by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, 26 November 1894, RR/12/332, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_332/referees-report-by-david-sharp-on-a-paper-the-pigments-of-the-pieridae-a-contribution-to-the-study-of-excretory-substances-which-function-in-ornament-by-frederick-gowland-hopkins, accessed on 08 September 2024

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