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Referee's report by Karl Pearson, on a paper 'Experiments on inheritance in parthenogenesis' by Wilfred Eade Agar

Reference number: RR/21/2

Date: July 1914

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers, however, that the paper is open to criticism. Suggests the author should add discussion around the ancestral hypothesis.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 6 July 1914.

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RR/21/2
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July 1914
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Karl Pearson, Referee's report by Karl Pearson, on a paper 'Experiments on inheritance in parthenogenesis' by Wilfred Eade Agar, July 1914, RR/21/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_2/referees-report-by-karl-pearson-on-a-paper-experiments-on-inheritance-in-parthenogenesis-by-wilfred-eade-agar, accessed on 20 September 2024

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