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Letter from Edwin Ray Lankester, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'Upon the development of the enamel in certain osseous fish' by Charles Sissmore Tomes

Reference number: RR/14/250

Date: 13 December 1899

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Finds the system of a series of papers adopted by the author 'to be open to abuse'. Many papers are rejected for the Philosophical Transactions due to lack of sufficient importance, but this author's papers are accepted as a continuation of a series. The current paper is important, but the illustrations are poor. Suggests Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer and Sydney John Hickson as referees.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on recto as received 14 December 1899.

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RR/14/250
Earliest possible date
13 December 1899
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Letter from Edwin Ray Lankester, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'Upon the development of the enamel in certain osseous fish' by Charles Sissmore Tomes, 13 December 1899, RR/14/250, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_250/letter-from-edwin-ray-lankester-to-michael-foster-regarding-a-paper-upon-the-development-of-the-enamel-in-certain-osseous-fish-by-charles-sissmore-tomes, accessed on 12 December 2025

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