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Referee's report by Edwin John Butler, on a paper 'On the composite nature of certain potato virus diseases of the mosaic group as revealed by the use of plant indicators and selective methods of transmission' by Kenneth Manley Smith

Reference number: RR/44/72

Date: September 1931

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The paper is 'concise and clear'' and should not be reduced. It is a notable contribution to the study of plant viruses.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1931].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 September 1931.

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RR/44/72
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September 1931
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Edwin John Butler, Referee's report by Edwin John Butler, on a paper 'On the composite nature of certain potato virus diseases of the mosaic group as revealed by the use of plant indicators and selective methods of transmission' by Kenneth Manley Smith, September 1931, RR/44/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_72/referees-report-by-edwin-john-butler-on-a-paper-on-the-composite-nature-of-certain-potato-virus-diseases-of-the-mosaic-group-as-revealed-by-the-use-of-plant-indicators-and-selective-methods-of-transmission-by-kenneth-manley-smith, accessed on 12 February 2025

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