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Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'A description of some fossil plants, showing, found in the lower coal-seams of Lancashire and Yorkshire' by Edward William Binney

Reference number: RR/5/19

Date: 27 June 1865

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Referee is familiar with the specimen described and can verify the accuracy of the 'representations'. Considers the paper unsatisfactory in some respects, but 'on the whole' the paper is a 'valuable addition'.

Subject: Geology and Botany

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1865]

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RR/5/19
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27 June 1865
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Joseph Dalton Hooker, Referee's report by Joseph Dalton Hooker, on a paper 'A description of some fossil plants, showing, found in the lower coal-seams of Lancashire and Yorkshire' by Edward William Binney, 27 June 1865, RR/5/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_19/referees-report-by-joseph-dalton-hooker-on-a-paper-a-description-of-some-fossil-plants-showing-found-in-the-lower-coal-seams-of-lancashire-and-yorkshire-by-edward-william-binney, accessed on 18 April 2025

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