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Referee's report by Albert Charles Seward, on a paper 'Miadesmia membranacea, Bertand; a new Palœozoic Lycopod with a seed-like structure' by Margaret Benson

Reference number: RR/17/126

Date: July 1907

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the author could abbreviate some of the description, but does not want this to be 'a condition' of publication. Suggests omitting some plates and rearranging others, and adding annotations. Suggests a total of five illustrations, but only if the author is asked to aim for this reduction.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 11 July 1907.

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RR/17/126
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July 1907
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Albert Charles Seward, Referee's report by Albert Charles Seward, on a paper 'Miadesmia membranacea, Bertand; a new Palœozoic Lycopod with a seed-like structure' by Margaret Benson, July 1907, RR/17/126, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_126/referees-report-by-albert-charles-seward-on-a-paper-miadesmia-membranacea-bertand-a-new-palœozoic-lycopod-with-a-seed-like-structure-by-margaret-benson, accessed on 17 July 2025

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