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Letter from unknown, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of fossil plants from the palæozoic rocks.— II. On spencerites, a new genus of lycopodiaceous cones from the coal measures, founded on the lepidodendron spenceri of Williamson' by Henry Dukinfield Scott to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

Reference number: RR/13/262

Date: 18 April 1897

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Every paper in the Philosophical Transactions should be accompanied by two written reports. He has told the Assistant Secretary of the Society that he will bear with him in producing a report.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1897].

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RR/13/262
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18 April 1897
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Letter from unknown, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of fossil plants from the palæozoic rocks.— II. On spencerites, a new genus of lycopodiaceous cones from the coal measures, founded on the lepidodendron spenceri of Williamson' by Henry Dukinfield Scott to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, 18 April 1897, RR/13/262, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_262/letter-from-unknown-on-a-paper-on-the-structure-and-affinities-of-fossil-plants-from-the-palæozoic-rocks-ii-on-spencerites-a-new-genus-of-lycopodiaceous-cones-from-the-coal-measures-founded-on-the-lepidodendron-spenceri-of-williamson-by-henry-dukinfield-scott-to-william-turner-thiselton-dyer, accessed on 16 August 2026

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