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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Suggestions for improvement (and or) alteration made.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1856, 1859, 1860]

Reference number
RR/3/38
Earliest possible date
18 August 1855
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Charles Robert Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Robert Darwin, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter, 18 August 1855, RR/3/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_38/referees-report-by-charles-robert-darwin-on-a-paper-researches-on-the-foraminifera-by-william-benjamin-carpenter, accessed on 25 June 2025

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