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Referee's report by Arthur George Tansley, on a paper 'A study by statistical methods of the distribution of species in grassland associations' by Geoffrey Emett Blackman

Reference number: RR/55/47

Date: 03 June 1935

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Sectional committee: Botany

Not recommended for publication. The paper contains 'no satisfactory analysis' and some of his statements are misleading. Most of the paper is inconclusive. Re-writing the paper probably won't fix the problem. The result is worth publishing, but the description is 'diffuse and somewhat confusing'.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 4 June 1935.

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RR/55/47
Earliest possible date
03 June 1935
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Standardised form (type D), note on paper and letter on paper
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5 pages
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Typescript
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Arthur George Tansley

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Arthur George Tansley, Referee's report by Arthur George Tansley, on a paper 'A study by statistical methods of the distribution of species in grassland associations' by Geoffrey Emett Blackman, 03 June 1935, RR/55/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_55_47/referees-report-by-arthur-george-tansley-on-a-paper-a-study-by-statistical-methods-of-the-distribution-of-species-in-grassland-associations-by-geoffrey-emett-blackman, accessed on 23 January 2025

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