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Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'Further observations on the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.-Part III. Lygnodendron and Heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson and Dukinfield Henry Scott

Reference number: RR/12/408

Date: 14 June 1895

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Notes that he has not had the time to devote to this paper as he had for the earlier papers. The paper is greatly elaborate.

Subject: Botany, Geology, Palaeontology

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

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RR/12/408
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14 June 1895
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Joseph Dalton Hooker, Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'Further observations on the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures.-Part III. Lygnodendron and Heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson and Dukinfield Henry Scott, 14 June 1895, RR/12/408, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_408/referees-report-by-joseph-dalton-hooker-on-a-paper-further-observations-on-the-organization-of-the-fossil-plants-of-the-coal-measures-part-iii-lygnodendron-and-heterangium-by-william-crawford-williamson-and-dukinfield-henry-scott, accessed on 07 December 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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