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Referee's report by Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, on a paper 'On the factors that influence external form of fossil plants; with descriptions of the foliage of some species of the Palaeozoic Equisetalean Genus Annularia Sternberg' by John Walton

Reference number: RR/62/81

Date: 12 February 1936

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests part I should be submitted to a physicist or physical geologist. Finds part I superficial and some of the conclusions unsound.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 18 February 1936.

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RR/62/81
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12 February 1936
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Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, Referee's report by Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, on a paper 'On the factors that influence external form of fossil plants; with descriptions of the foliage of some species of the Palaeozoic Equisetalean Genus Annularia Sternberg' by John Walton, 12 February 1936, RR/62/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_62_81/referees-report-by-hugh-hamshaw-thomas-on-a-paper-on-the-factors-that-influence-external-form-of-fossil-plants-with-descriptions-of-the-foliage-of-some-species-of-the-palaeozoic-equisetalean-genus-annularia-sternberg-by-john-walton, accessed on 21 April 2026

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