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Referee's report by John Graham Kerr, on a paper 'The structure, evolution and origin of the Amphibia. - The "orders' Rachitomi and Stereospondyli' by David Meredith Seares Watson

Reference number: RR/24/89

Date: April 1917

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the publications of the Royal Society may not be the best place for extensive descriptions of fossil specimens. Suggests changing the title and correcting the spelling of German and Bohemian names.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1920]

Endorsed on verso as received 11 April 1917.

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April 1917
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John Graham Kerr, Referee's report by John Graham Kerr, on a paper 'The structure, evolution and origin of the Amphibia. - The "orders' Rachitomi and Stereospondyli' by David Meredith Seares Watson, April 1917, RR/24/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_89/referees-report-by-john-graham-kerr-on-a-paper-the-structure-evolution-and-origin-of-the-amphibia-the-orders-rachitomi-and-stereospondyli-by-david-meredith-seares-watson, accessed on 15 March 2025

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