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Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on report submitted to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen

Reference number: RR/16/173

Date: September 1904

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Sectional Committee: Botany and Zoology

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. The author's attention should be called to the state of the copy which is not type written and is difficult to read.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 6 September 1904.

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Francis Darwin, Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on report submitted to the Evolution Committee, II, regarding three papers 'Experimental Studies in the Physiology of Heredity' by William Bateson, E R Saunders and Reginald Crundall Punnett, 'Experiments with Poulty' by C C Hurst, and 'Some Experiments on Wheat-breeding' by Rowland Harry Biffen, September 1904, RR/16/173, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_173/referees-report-by-francis-darwin-on-report-submitted-to-the-evolution-committee-ii-regarding-three-papers-experimental-studies-in-the-physiology-of-heredity-by-william-bateson-e-r-saunders-and-reginald-crundall-punnett-experiments-with-poulty-by-c-c-hurst-and-some-experiments-on-wheat-breeding-by-rowland-harry-biffen, accessed on 06 December 2024

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