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Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'On the cytology of apogamy & apospory. II. preliminary note on apospory' by L Digby

Reference number: RR/16/297

Date: 13 May 1905

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, subject to a revision of the nomenclature. All the illustrations should be reproduced. Explains how the author's misunderstanding of the nomenclature has led them to give an entirely wrong impression as to the relation between the plant forms compared.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1905].

Endorsed on verso as received 16 May 1905.

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RR/16/297
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13 May 1905
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Dukinfield Henry Scott, Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'On the cytology of apogamy & apospory. II. preliminary note on apospory' by L Digby, 13 May 1905, RR/16/297, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_297/referees-report-by-dukinfield-henry-scott-on-a-paper-on-the-cytology-of-apogamy-apospory-ii-preliminary-note-on-apospory-by-l-digby, accessed on 06 December 2025

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