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Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Fossils of the late pre-cambrian (newer proterogoic) Adelaide series, South Australia' by Tannatt William Edgeworth David and Robin John Tillyard

Reference number: RR/47/13

Date: 22 June 1932

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Sectional committee: Geology

Paper reference code: B.30

Not recommended for publication. The examples which they use don't appear to be fossils, and may perhaps be cavities instead. The evidence against, rather than for them.The purely geological parts of the paper don't call for much comment.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 June 1932.

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RR/47/13
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22 June 1932
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Standardised form (type D) and report on paper
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4 pages
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William Dickson Lang, Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Fossils of the late pre-cambrian (newer proterogoic) Adelaide series, South Australia' by Tannatt William Edgeworth David and Robin John Tillyard, 22 June 1932, RR/47/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_13/referees-report-by-william-dickson-lang-on-a-paper-fossils-of-the-late-pre-cambrian-newer-proterogoic-adelaide-series-south-australia-by-tannatt-william-edgeworth-david-and-robin-john-tillyard, accessed on 09 October 2024

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