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Referee's report by Frederick Ernest Weiss, on a paper 'On a flora, including vascular land plants, associated with Monograptus, in rocks of Silurian age, from Victoria, Australia' by William Henry Lang and Isabel C Cookson

Reference number: RR/51/5

Date: August 1934

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is the first description of the Silurian plants.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1935]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 August 1934.

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RR/51/5
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August 1934
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Frederick Ernest Weiss

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Frederick Ernest Weiss, Referee's report by Frederick Ernest Weiss, on a paper 'On a flora, including vascular land plants, associated with Monograptus, in rocks of Silurian age, from Victoria, Australia' by William Henry Lang and Isabel C Cookson, August 1934, RR/51/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_51_5/referees-report-by-frederick-ernest-weiss-on-a-paper-on-a-flora-including-vascular-land-plants-associated-with-monograptus-in-rocks-of-silurian-age-from-victoria-australia-by-william-henry-lang-and-isabel-c-cookson, accessed on 05 December 2024

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