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Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'The extinct of rhinoceroses of Baluchistan' by Clive Forster-Cooper

Reference number: RR/49/71

Date: October 1933

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', if modified. Suggests the author revise the paper, as regards composition and punctuation. Finds the paper clumsily arranged, and the systematics slovenly.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 1 November 1933.

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RR/49/71
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October 1933
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Dickson Lang

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William Dickson Lang, Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'The extinct of rhinoceroses of Baluchistan' by Clive Forster-Cooper, October 1933, RR/49/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_49_71/referees-report-by-william-dickson-lang-on-a-paper-the-extinct-of-rhinoceroses-of-baluchistan-by-clive-forster-cooper, accessed on 09 October 2024

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