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Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Genetical and taxonomic investigations in the Genus Oenothera' by Reginald Ruggles Gates

Reference number: RR/59/90

Date: March 1936

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The Royal Society does not usually publish papers of sytematics, wonders if the Linnean Society would be interested. Suggests submitting the paper to a systematicist for review, such as Archibald Vivian Hill.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 7 March 1936.

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RR/59/90
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March 1936
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Vernon Herbert Blackman, Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Genetical and taxonomic investigations in the Genus Oenothera' by Reginald Ruggles Gates, March 1936, RR/59/90, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_59_90/referees-report-by-vernon-herbert-blackman-on-a-paper-genetical-and-taxonomic-investigations-in-the-genus-oenothera-by-reginald-ruggles-gates, accessed on 06 December 2025

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