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Letter from Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the leaves of lathraea squamaria' by Percy Groom to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

Reference number: RR/13/188

Date: 29 April 1897

Description

Communicates that Isaac Bayley Balfour thinks the paper shouldn't be published.

Subject: Botany

[Not published].

Reference number
RR/13/188
Earliest possible date
29 April 1897
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript
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Letter from Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'On the leaves of lathraea squamaria' by Percy Groom to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, 29 April 1897, RR/13/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_188/letter-from-robert-harrison-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-on-the-leaves-of-lathraea-squamaria-by-percy-groom-to-william-turner-thiselton-dyer, accessed on 21 January 2025

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