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Referee's report by Arthur Smith Woodward, on a paper 'On the skulls of early Tertiary Suidae, together with an account of the otic region in some other primitive Artiodactyla' by Helga Sharpe Pearson

Reference number: RR/36/34

Date: March 1927

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The English should be carefully revised. Suggests 'care should be taken in accusing museums of breaking and destroying specimens'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1927]

Endorsed on verso as received 22 March 1927.

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RR/36/34
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March 1927
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2 pages
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Arthur Smith Woodward, Referee's report by Arthur Smith Woodward, on a paper 'On the skulls of early Tertiary Suidae, together with an account of the otic region in some other primitive Artiodactyla' by Helga Sharpe Pearson, March 1927, RR/36/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_34/referees-report-by-arthur-smith-woodward-on-a-paper-on-the-skulls-of-early-tertiary-suidae-together-with-an-account-of-the-otic-region-in-some-other-primitive-artiodactyla-by-helga-sharpe-pearson, accessed on 11 August 2026

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