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Referee's report by Richard Dixon Oldham, on a paper 'On the origin of the Indo-Gangetic trough, commonly called the Himalayan foredeep' by Sidney Gerald Burrard

Reference number: RR/21/46

Date: 22 September 1914

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Sectional Committee: Geology

Not recommended for publication by the Royal Society. Considers the paper purely argumentative with the published views of the referee. Does agree with the greater part of the paper however.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1915]

Endorsed on verso as received September 1914.

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RR/21/46
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22 September 1914
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Richard Dixon Oldham, Referee's report by Richard Dixon Oldham, on a paper 'On the origin of the Indo-Gangetic trough, commonly called the Himalayan foredeep' by Sidney Gerald Burrard, 22 September 1914, RR/21/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_46/referees-report-by-richard-dixon-oldham-on-a-paper-on-the-origin-of-the-indo-gangetic-trough-commonly-called-the-himalayan-foredeep-by-sidney-gerald-burrard, accessed on 21 April 2025

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