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Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Reference number: RR/47/125

Date: March 1932

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Paper reference code: B.16

Not recommended for publication.The author gives no measurements or angles to justify his conclusions. The physics of the paper is 'very questionable'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 18 March 1932.

Reference number
RR/47/125
Earliest possible date
March 1932
Physical description
Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Typescript
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Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, March 1932, RR/47/125, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_125/referees-report-by-charles-herbert-lees-on-a-paper-the-geometry-of-the-siliceous-skeletons-of-the-radiolaria-by-darcy-wentworth-thompson, accessed on 25 January 2026

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