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Referee's report by Robert Kidston, on a paper 'The structure and affinities of fossil plants from the palaeozoic rocks. V. A new type of sphenophyllaceous cone (sphenophyllum fertile) from the lower coal measures' by Dukinfield Henry Scott

Reference number: RR/16/228

Date: January 1904

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, without modification. All the illustrations are necessary for the complete understanding of the structure of the cone described. It is a most important paper containing the description of a fructification of great interest, and one which throws much new light on the fructifications of the Paleozoic rocks.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1906].

Endorsed on verso as received 3 January 1904.

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Robert Kidston, Referee's report by Robert Kidston, on a paper 'The structure and affinities of fossil plants from the palaeozoic rocks. V. A new type of sphenophyllaceous cone (sphenophyllum fertile) from the lower coal measures' by Dukinfield Henry Scott, January 1904, RR/16/228, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_228/referees-report-by-robert-kidston-on-a-paper-the-structure-and-affinities-of-fossil-plants-from-the-palaeozoic-rocks-v-a-new-type-of-sphenophyllaceous-cone-sphenophyllum-fertile-from-the-lower-coal-measures-by-dukinfield-henry-scott, accessed on 29 April 2025

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