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Referee's report by John Graham Kerr, on a paper 'Danish researches in the Atlantic and Mediterranean on the life-history of the Fresh-water Eel (Anguilla vulgaris, Turt.), with notes on other species' by J Schmidt

Reference number: RR/19/116

Date: April 1912

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests shortening the paper if possible. Refers to work by Giovanni Battista Grassi ['The Reproduction and Metamorphosis of the Common Eel (Anguilla vulgaris)', Proceedings, Vol.60, 1897, doi: 10.1098/rspl.1896.0045], on whose work the current paper supplements.

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Endorsed on verso as received 20 April 1912.

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John Graham Kerr, Referee's report by John Graham Kerr, on a paper 'Danish researches in the Atlantic and Mediterranean on the life-history of the Fresh-water Eel (Anguilla vulgaris, Turt.), with notes on other species' by J Schmidt, April 1912, RR/19/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_116/referees-report-by-john-graham-kerr-on-a-paper-danish-researches-in-the-atlantic-and-mediterranean-on-the-life-history-of-the-fresh-water-eel-anguilla-vulgaris-turt-with-notes-on-other-species-by-j-schmidt, accessed on 13 January 2025

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