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Letter from Michael Foster, to Edwin Ray Lankester, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman

Reference number: RR/14/73

Date: 1898

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Asks if the section on Pyrocystis should be offered to the Linnean Society, or simply archived. Let Mr Harrison know the decision.

Note by Edwin Ray Lankester states this was omitted from his letter.

Subject: Botany, Zoology

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

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RR/14/73
Earliest possible date
1898
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Letter from Michael Foster, to Edwin Ray Lankester, regarding a paper 'A study of the phyto-plankton of the Atlantic' by George Robert Milne Murray and Vernon Herbert Blackman, 1898, RR/14/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_73/letter-from-michael-foster-to-edwin-ray-lankester-regarding-a-paper-a-study-of-the-phyto-plankton-of-the-atlantic-by-george-robert-milne-murray-and-vernon-herbert-blackman, accessed on 18 March 2025

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