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Referee's report by Edwin Stephen Goodrich, on a paper 'On the evolution of the vertebral column in birds, illustrated by its development in Larus and Struthio' by Johannes Piiper

Reference number: RR/36/42

Date: June 1927

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper should be very much shortened. Many of the illustrations should be replaced with a few clear diagrams.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1928]

Endorsed on verso as received 28 June 1927.

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RR/36/42
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June 1927
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Edwin Stephen Goodrich

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Edwin Stephen Goodrich, Referee's report by Edwin Stephen Goodrich, on a paper 'On the evolution of the vertebral column in birds, illustrated by its development in Larus and Struthio' by Johannes Piiper, June 1927, RR/36/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_36_42/referees-report-by-edwin-stephen-goodrich-on-a-paper-on-the-evolution-of-the-vertebral-column-in-birds-illustrated-by-its-development-in-larus-and-struthio-by-johannes-piiper, accessed on 25 March 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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