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Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'Notes on certain aspects of the development of Trypanosoma gambiense in Glossina palpalis' by Muriel Robertson

Reference number: RR/19/102

Date: March 1912

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests that the statistical deductions might be 'open to criticism by a mathematician'. Considers the style to be 'very bad' and has corrected some of the worst passages. Suggests that further editing may be necessary.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1912]

Endorsed on verso as received 6 March 1912.

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RR/19/102
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March 1912
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4 pages
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Edward Alfred Minchin, Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'Notes on certain aspects of the development of Trypanosoma gambiense in Glossina palpalis' by Muriel Robertson, March 1912, RR/19/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_102/referees-report-by-edward-alfred-minchin-on-a-paper-notes-on-certain-aspects-of-the-development-of-trypanosoma-gambiense-in-glossina-palpalis-by-muriel-robertson, accessed on 18 April 2025

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