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Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, 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

Reference number: RR/13/265

Date: November 1897

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is an 'admirable contribution' and should be published in full with all illustrations.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1897].

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RR/13/265
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November 1897
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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 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, November 1897, RR/13/265, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_265/referees-report-by-isaac-bayley-balfour-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, accessed on 24 May 2025

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