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Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'On Clepsydropsis australis, a zygopterid tree-fern with a Tempskya-like false stem, from the carboniferous rocks of Australia' by Birbal Sahni

Reference number: RR/38/133

Date: 15 February 1928

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. No modifications are required as the paper is 'very well and carefully written'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1929].

Endorsed on verso as received 16 February 1928.

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RR/38/133
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Dukinfield Henry Scott, Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'On Clepsydropsis australis, a zygopterid tree-fern with a Tempskya-like false stem, from the carboniferous rocks of Australia' by Birbal Sahni, 15 February 1928, RR/38/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_133/referees-report-by-dukinfield-henry-scott-on-a-paper-on-clepsydropsis-australis-a-zygopterid-tree-fern-with-a-tempskya-like-false-stem-from-the-carboniferous-rocks-of-australia-by-birbal-sahni, accessed on 05 December 2025

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