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Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'The relative aetiological importance of birth order and maternal age in [mongolism]' by Lionel Sharples Penrose

Reference number: RR/50/84

Date: May 1934

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Paper contains offensive terms].

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1934].

Endorsed on verso as received 16 May 1934.

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RR/50/84
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May 1934
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Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'The relative aetiological importance of birth order and maternal age in [mongolism]' by Lionel Sharples Penrose, May 1934, RR/50/84, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_50_84/referees-report-by-ronald-aylmer-fisher-on-a-paper-the-relative-aetiological-importance-of-birth-order-and-maternal-age-in-mongolism-by-lionel-sharples-penrose, accessed on 06 December 2025

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