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Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of echinoderm eggs, and its bearing on the problems of fertilisation and artificial parthenogenesis' by James Gray

Reference number: RR/21/76

Date: December 1914

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', with modifications. Suggests edits and omissions to the plates. Considers the paper too long, discursive and in places too much of a summary. Refers to work by Frank Rattray Lillie and Jesse Francis McClendon. Provides criticisms of the experimental methodology.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1916]

Endorsed on verso as received 12 December 1914.

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RR/21/76
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December 1914
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4 pages
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William Bate Hardy, Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of echinoderm eggs, and its bearing on the problems of fertilisation and artificial parthenogenesis' by James Gray, December 1914, RR/21/76, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_76/referees-report-by-william-bate-hardy-on-a-paper-the-electrical-conductivity-of-echinoderm-eggs-and-its-bearing-on-the-problems-of-fertilisation-and-artificial-parthenogenesis-by-james-gray, accessed on 02 December 2024

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