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Referee's report by William Benjamin Carter, on a paper 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus, Linck (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson

Reference number: RR/5/270

Date: 12 March 1863

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Johannes Peter Müller and George Busk. Referee has plans on writing his own paper on the Pentacrinoids. Has detected an error in the paper's anatomical description, which he has communicated to the author, who is willing to change the few affected lines.

Subject: Zoology

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

Reference number
RR/5/270
Earliest possible date
12 March 1863
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter, Referee's report by William Benjamin Carter, on a paper 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus, Linck (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, 12 March 1863, RR/5/270, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_270/referees-report-by-william-benjamin-carter-on-a-paper-on-the-embryogeny-of-antedon-rosaceus-linck-comatula-rosacea-of-lamarck-by-charles-thomas-wyville-thomson, accessed on 10 December 2023

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