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Referee's report by D'arcy Wentworth Thompson, on a paper 'The life history of some marine plankton diatoms' by F Gross

Reference number: RR/60/7

Date: 21 January 1937

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a useful piece of work, but 'nothing in it is brilliant' and it doesn't contain much new information. The paper is long-winded and could be reduced in length.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 January 1937.

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RR/60/7
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21 January 1937
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2 pages
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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Referee's report by D'arcy Wentworth Thompson, on a paper 'The life history of some marine plankton diatoms' by F Gross, 21 January 1937, RR/60/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_60_7/referees-report-by-darcy-wentworth-thompson-on-a-paper-the-life-history-of-some-marine-plankton-diatoms-by-f-gross, accessed on 12 September 2024

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