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Referee's report by Adam Sedgwick, on a paper 'On the development of the head-muscles of the common fowl (Gallus domesticus), together with some remarks on the head-muscles of reptiles' by F H Edgeworth

Reference number: RR/17/32

Date: February 1906

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Considers the author 'ignorant of some of the fundamental facts of cranial morphology'.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 February 1906.

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RR/17/32
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February 1906
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Standardised form (type A)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Adam Sedgwick

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Adam Sedgwick, Referee's report by Adam Sedgwick, on a paper 'On the development of the head-muscles of the common fowl (Gallus domesticus), together with some remarks on the head-muscles of reptiles' by F H Edgeworth, February 1906, RR/17/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_32/referees-report-by-adam-sedgwick-on-a-paper-on-the-development-of-the-head-muscles-of-the-common-fowl-gallus-domesticus-together-with-some-remarks-on-the-head-muscles-of-reptiles-by-f-h-edgeworth, accessed on 11 October 2024

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