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Sectional committee: Zoology

Not recommended for publication in its present form. The paper is made up of 'painstaking and accurate observations', but contains little new facts. No effort has been made to distinguish between old and new matter. The author should create a smaller paper that bring out anything new he has found in his results.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 December 1928.

Reference number
RR/37/52
Earliest possible date
December 1928
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edwin Stephen Goodrich

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Edwin Stephen Goodrich, Referee's report by Edwin Stephen Goodrich, on a paper 'The development of the vertebral column in mammals, as illustrated by its development in Mus musculus' by Ben Dawes, December 1928, RR/37/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_37_52/referees-report-by-edwin-stephen-goodrich-on-a-paper-the-development-of-the-vertebral-column-in-mammals-as-illustrated-by-its-development-in-mus-musculus-by-ben-dawes, accessed on 12 May 2026

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