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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests reducing or omitting the introductory discussions. Is willing to discuss this suggestion with the author.

Subject: Physiology

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

Reference number
RR/5/78
Earliest possible date
1865
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Sharpey

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William Sharpey, Referee's report by William Sharpey, on a paper 'On the commissures of the cerebral hemispheres of the marsupialia and monotremata as compared with those of the placental mammals' by William Henry Flower, 1865, RR/5/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_78/referees-report-by-william-sharpey-on-a-paper-on-the-commissures-of-the-cerebral-hemispheres-of-the-marsupialia-and-monotremata-as-compared-with-those-of-the-placental-mammals-by-william-henry-flower, accessed on 12 November 2025

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