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Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, 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/38/134

Date: February 1928

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It is 'an excellent piece of work, concise and well expressed'. It contains valuable facts and conclusions which add to the current natural knowledge.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1929].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 February 1928.

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RR/38/134
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February 1928
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2 pages
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Frederick Orpen Bower

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Frederick Orpen Bower, Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, 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, February 1928, RR/38/134, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_134/referees-report-by-frederick-orpen-bower-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 11 April 2026

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