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Referee's report by William Abbott Herdman, on a paper 'Experiments in hybridization; with special reference to the effect of conditions on dominance' by Leonard Doncaster

Reference number: RR/16/40

Date: April 1903

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with some minor exceptions. The few illustrations should be reproduced and will require to be more neatly drawn. The section describing the larva could be shortened as it is very long and as the author states these larvae have been recently fully described. The lengthy tables at the end may also be omitted as they seem to him to be laboratory note-book work which may be summarised, and from which conclusions may be drawn.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1904].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 April 1903.

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RR/16/40
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April 1903
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Standardised form (type A)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Abbott Herdman

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William Abbott Herdman, Referee's report by William Abbott Herdman, on a paper 'Experiments in hybridization; with special reference to the effect of conditions on dominance' by Leonard Doncaster, April 1903, RR/16/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_40/referees-report-by-william-abbott-herdman-on-a-paper-experiments-in-hybridization-with-special-reference-to-the-effect-of-conditions-on-dominance-by-leonard-doncaster, accessed on 18 February 2025

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