Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The British freshwater phytoplankton, with special reference to the desmid-plankton and the distribution of British desmids' by W West and G S West
Reference number: RR/17/358
Date: November 1908

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Sectional committee: Botany
Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as two thirds of the paper is a summary of already-existing papers on the subject. Doesn't meet the high standard of Royal Society publications.
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1909].
Endorsed on verso as received 23 November 1908.
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Frederick Frost Blackman, Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The British freshwater phytoplankton, with special reference to the desmid-plankton and the distribution of British desmids' by W West and G S West, November 1908, RR/17/358, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_358/referees-report-by-frederick-frost-blackman-on-a-paper-the-british-freshwater-phytoplankton-with-special-reference-to-the-desmid-plankton-and-the-distribution-of-british-desmids-by-w-west-and-g-s-west, accessed on 13 May 2025
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The British freshwater phytoplankton, with special reference to the desmid-plankton and the distribution of British desmids External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 5th June 1909
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1909.0016
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Referee's report by Harold Wager, on a paper 'The British freshwater phytoplankton, with special reference to the desmid-plankton and the distribution of British desmids' by W West and G S West
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Referees' reports: volume 17, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1906-1909 Reference number: RR/17
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