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Referee's report by Augustus Daniel Imms, on a paper 'Climate and tsetse flies: laboratory studies upon Glossina submorsitans and tachinoides' by Patrick Alfred Buxton and D J Lewis

Reference number: RR/53/11

Date: May 1934

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The subject is too complex to be read before the Royal Society in the allotted time. Gives criticism of the experimental method, comparing the limitations of laboratory conditions with conditions in the wild.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 18 May 1934.

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RR/53/11
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May 1934
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Augustus Daniel Imms

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Augustus Daniel Imms, Referee's report by Augustus Daniel Imms, on a paper 'Climate and tsetse flies: laboratory studies upon Glossina submorsitans and tachinoides' by Patrick Alfred Buxton and D J Lewis, May 1934, RR/53/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_53_11/referees-report-by-augustus-daniel-imms-on-a-paper-climate-and-tsetse-flies-laboratory-studies-upon-glossina-submorsitans-and-tachinoides-by-patrick-alfred-buxton-and-d-j-lewis, accessed on 23 March 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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