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Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Extinct mammalia from Madagascar. I. Megaladapis insignis sp. n.' by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major

Reference number: RR/15/91

Date: March 1900

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions in full, without modification and with all the illustrations reproduced. It is 'a description of a most remarkable extinct animal, well worth a place in the Transactions'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1900].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 March 1900.

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RR/15/91
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March 1900
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Edwin Ray Lankester, Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Extinct mammalia from Madagascar. I. Megaladapis insignis sp. n.' by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major, March 1900, RR/15/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_91/referees-report-by-edwin-ray-lankester-on-a-paper-extinct-mammalia-from-madagascar-i-megaladapis-insignis-sp-n-by-charles-immanuel-forsyth-major, accessed on 18 January 2025

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