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Referee's report by Grafton Elliot Smith, on a paper 'The origin of speech — A hypothesis' by Richard Arthur Surtees Paget

Reference number: RR/36/23

Date: July 1927

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Putting such a paper forward for Proceedings A could be criticised.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1928]

Endorsed on verso as received 4 July 1927.

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RR/36/23
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July 1927
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Grafton Elliot Smith, Referee's report by Grafton Elliot Smith, on a paper 'The origin of speech — A hypothesis' by Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, July 1927, RR/36/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_23/referees-report-by-grafton-elliot-smith-on-a-paper-the-origin-of-speech-a-hypothesis-by-richard-arthur-surtees-paget, accessed on 15 February 2026

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