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Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Modification of mammalian sexual cycles, VII—Fertile matings of raccoons in December instead of February induced by increasing daily periods of light' by Thomas Hume Bissonnette and Albert G Csech

Reference number: RR/57/105

Date: December 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests adding a note stating where the other parts in the series are published. 'The abstract at the beginning, apparently included in conformity with American requirements, is out of place for the Proceedings'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 7 December 1936.

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RR/57/105
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December 1936
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Alan Sterling Parkes, Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Modification of mammalian sexual cycles, VII—Fertile matings of raccoons in December instead of February induced by increasing daily periods of light' by Thomas Hume Bissonnette and Albert G Csech, December 1936, RR/57/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_57_105/referees-report-by-alan-sterling-parkes-on-a-paper-modification-of-mammalian-sexual-cycles-viifertile-matings-of-raccoons-in-december-instead-of-february-induced-by-increasing-daily-periods-of-light-by-thomas-hume-bissonnette-and-albert-g-csech, accessed on 16 July 2025

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