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Referee's report by Joseph Prestwich, on a paper 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire' by William Pengelly

Reference number: RR/5/177

Date: March 1862

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Parkinson [?], Godwin-Austen [Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen or Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen], Henry De la Beche, Croker [?], Key [?] and Joseph Dalton Hooker. This paper should be published as an addition to the paper by Oswald Heer ['On the fossil flora of Bovey Tracey', doi:10.1098/rstl.1862.0043 Vol.152 1862, RR/5/98 and RR/5/122].

Subject: Geology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1862]

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RR/5/177
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March 1862
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Joseph Prestwich, Referee's report by Joseph Prestwich, on a paper 'The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire' by William Pengelly, March 1862, RR/5/177, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_177/referees-report-by-joseph-prestwich-on-a-paper-the-lignites-and-clays-of-bovey-tracey-devonshire-by-william-pengelly, accessed on 05 October 2024

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