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Referee's report by Edwin Stephen Goodrich, on a paper 'On the inheritance of eye-colour in man' by C C Hurst

Reference number: RR/17/182

Date: June 1907

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', 'but only on the condition...that the individuals examined and classified as duplex or simplex should be reassessed and independently classified by some competent and impartial critic'. The current distinction made between the duplex and simplex condition 'must be very much influenced by the unconscious bias of the author'.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 6 June 1907.

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RR/17/182
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June 1907
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Standardised form (type C)
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2 pages
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Edwin Stephen Goodrich, Referee's report by Edwin Stephen Goodrich, on a paper 'On the inheritance of eye-colour in man' by C C Hurst, June 1907, RR/17/182, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_182/referees-report-by-edwin-stephen-goodrich-on-a-paper-on-the-inheritance-of-eye-colour-in-man-by-c-c-hurst, accessed on 12 October 2024

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