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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests deleting unscientific phrasing of geological time in years. Suggests the specimens illustrated or described should have their owning institutions named, and for specimens at the British Museum [Natural History Museum] their acquisition number should also be referenced.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1915]

Endorsed on verso as received 14 May 1915.

Reference number
RR/21/34
Earliest possible date
May 1914
Physical description
Standardised form (type A)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Arthur Smith Woodward

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Arthur Smith Woodward, Referee's report by Arthur Smith Woodward, on the Croonian Lecture 'On the origin of mammals' by Robert Broom, May 1914, RR/21/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_34/referees-report-by-arthur-smith-woodward-on-the-croonian-lecture-on-the-origin-of-mammals-by-robert-broom, accessed on 10 February 2025

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