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Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate, from the upper silurian of lesmahagow, lanarkshire —Ainiktozoon loganense, gen. et sp. nov' by D J Scourfield

Reference number: RR/62/11

Date: August 1936

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests some minor points, including explaining the derivation of the new latin name, and giving measurements in metric rather than imperial.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 26 August 1936.

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RR/62/11
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August 1936
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Herbert Graham Cannon, Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate, from the upper silurian of lesmahagow, lanarkshire —Ainiktozoon loganense, gen. et sp. nov' by D J Scourfield, August 1936, RR/62/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_62_11/referees-report-by-herbert-graham-cannon-on-a-paper-an-anomalous-fossil-organism-possibly-a-new-type-of-chordate-from-the-upper-silurian-of-lesmahagow-lanarkshire-ainiktozoon-loganense-gen-et-sp-nov-by-d-j-scourfield, accessed on 12 September 2024

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