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Referee's report by Edward Fawcett, on a paper 'On the skull of holocephali' by Gavin Rylands De Beer and J A Moy-Thomas

Reference number: RR/52/36

Date: July 1934

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. Some grammatical modifications could be made. The paper is 'admirable'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1935].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 July 1934.

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RR/52/36
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July 1934
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Edward Fawcett, Referee's report by Edward Fawcett, on a paper 'On the skull of holocephali' by Gavin Rylands De Beer and J A Moy-Thomas, July 1934, RR/52/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_52_36/referees-report-by-edward-fawcett-on-a-paper-on-the-skull-of-holocephali-by-gavin-rylands-de-beer-and-j-a-moy-thomas, accessed on 14 July 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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