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Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Vestigial structures observed in male mice after prolonged treatment with oestrogenic compounds' by Harold Burrows

Reference number: RR/55/71

Date: May 1935

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Sectional committee: Physiology

The point brought out by the paper is rather slight, as there is no evidence that the vestiges are Mullerian in nature. The paper is 'unexceptionable'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1935].

Endorsed on verso as received 1 June 1935.

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RR/55/71
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May 1935
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Alan Sterling Parkes, Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Vestigial structures observed in male mice after prolonged treatment with oestrogenic compounds' by Harold Burrows, May 1935, RR/55/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_55_71/referees-report-by-alan-sterling-parkes-on-a-paper-vestigial-structures-observed-in-male-mice-after-prolonged-treatment-with-oestrogenic-compounds-by-harold-burrows, accessed on 19 January 2025

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