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Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'Studies in the morphology of spore-producing members. No. V. general comparisons and conclusion' by Professor Frederick Orpen Bower

Reference number: RR/16/22

Date: February 1903

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Does not discuss modification or illustrations. In general thinks this a clear summary of evidence. The statement of the hypothesis of a method of evolution advanced by the author and the results make this a memoir of great importance.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1904]

Endorsed on verso as received 24 February 1903.

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RR/16/22
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February 1903
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Isaac Bayley Balfour, Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'Studies in the morphology of spore-producing members. No. V. general comparisons and conclusion' by Professor Frederick Orpen Bower, February 1903, RR/16/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_22/referees-report-by-isaac-bayley-balfour-on-a-paper-studies-in-the-morphology-of-spore-producing-members-no-v-general-comparisons-and-conclusion-by-professor-frederick-orpen-bower, accessed on 16 September 2024

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