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Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on a paper 'The distribution of vertebrate animals in India, Ceylon & Burma' by William Thomas Blanford

Reference number: RR/15/12

Date: 04 January 1901

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. Recommends a reference which should be included for the section on the Mediterranean Region. Notes a change of name for a genus given on page 135. The paper most important, it contains a number of new facts and proposes an entire reassessment of the zoo-geographical sub-regions of the Indian Empire.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1901].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 January 1901.

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Richard Lydekker, Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on a paper 'The distribution of vertebrate animals in India, Ceylon & Burma' by William Thomas Blanford, 04 January 1901, RR/15/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_12/referees-report-by-richard-lydekker-on-a-paper-the-distribution-of-vertebrate-animals-in-india-ceylon-burma-by-william-thomas-blanford, accessed on 02 December 2024

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