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Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on two papers 'On the ossiferous cave-deposits of Cyprus' and 'Further note on the remains of Elephas cypriotes from a cave-deposit in Cyprus' by Dorothea Minola Alice Bate

Reference number: RR/16/145

Date: 23 May 1904

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Sectional Committee: Geology

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. When small elephants were discovered in Malta, it was practically a foregone conclusion they would occur in the other Mediterranean islands. The discovery of the Cyprian form, which in Lydekker's opinion is only a local case of the other, is undoubtedly interesting, but does not mark a real advance in science and the description of the remains in the Society's Proceedings would be amply sufficient.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions B, 1905].

Endorsed on verso as received 26 May 1904.

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Richard Lydekker, Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on two papers 'On the ossiferous cave-deposits of Cyprus' and 'Further note on the remains of Elephas cypriotes from a cave-deposit in Cyprus' by Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, 23 May 1904, RR/16/145, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_145/referees-report-by-richard-lydekker-on-two-papers-on-the-ossiferous-cave-deposits-of-cyprus-and-further-note-on-the-remains-of-elephas-cypriotes-from-a-cave-deposit-in-cyprus-by-dorothea-minola-alice-bate, accessed on 11 September 2024

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