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Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'The function of sex' by G Archdall Reid

Reference number: RR/16/366

Date: October 1905

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

The paper should not be published in the Proceedings, nor read before the Society. He grieves to report against any paper, and if his co-referee thinks differently he will not press his objection. The memoir starts with a hypothesis, it is deduction throughout and leads so far as he can see, to no important conclusion.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 1905.

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RR/16/366
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October 1905
Physical description
Standardised form (type C)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis Galton

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Francis Galton, Referee's report by Francis Galton, on a paper 'The function of sex' by G Archdall Reid, October 1905, RR/16/366, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_366/referees-report-by-francis-galton-on-a-paper-the-function-of-sex-by-g-archdall-reid, accessed on 14 January 2026

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