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Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'On the leaves of lathraea squamaria' by Percy Groom

Reference number: RR/13/187

Date: 28 April 1897

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. It's main points have already been discovered and the paper is supplemental to one he had published in the Journal of the Linnaean Society. He should forward the paper to the Linnaean Society instead.

Subject: Botany

[Not published].

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RR/13/187
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28 April 1897
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Typescript

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Isaac Bayley Balfour

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Isaac Bayley Balfour, Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'On the leaves of lathraea squamaria' by Percy Groom, 28 April 1897, RR/13/187, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_187/referees-report-by-isaac-bayley-balfour-on-a-paper-on-the-leaves-of-lathraea-squamaria-by-percy-groom, accessed on 11 February 2026

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