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Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'The organization of the cell wall of the conifer tracheid' by Reginald Dawson Preston

Reference number: RR/54/89

Date: February 1934

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Sectional committee: Botany

He cannot criticise the paper from a botanical point of view. The structural ideas seem sound and probable. From a physical point of view it is 'interesting but hardly worth such elaborate publication'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1934].

Endorsed on verso as received 10 February 1934.

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RR/54/89
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February 1934
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George Paget Thomson, Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'The organization of the cell wall of the conifer tracheid' by Reginald Dawson Preston, February 1934, RR/54/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_54_89/referees-report-by-george-paget-thomson-on-a-paper-the-organization-of-the-cell-wall-of-the-conifer-tracheid-by-reginald-dawson-preston, accessed on 05 October 2024

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