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Referee's report by David Meredith Seares Watson, 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/62/12

Date: June 1936

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Full locality details should be given, along with an explanation of the plates. Discusses the photographs.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 25 June 1936.

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David Meredith Seares Watson, Referee's report by David Meredith Seares Watson, 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, June 1936, RR/62/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_62_12/referees-report-by-david-meredith-seares-watson-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 11 September 2026

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