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Referee's report by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, on a paper 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes VI—The behaviour of the centromere at meiosis' by Margaret Upcott

Reference number: RR/63/116

Date: October 1937

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The paper uses new technical terms such as 'centromere' and 'convergent' and these should be defined. References should be made to other authors on the subject.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 October 1937.

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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Referee's report by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, on a paper 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes VI—The behaviour of the centromere at meiosis' by Margaret Upcott, October 1937, RR/63/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_116/referees-report-by-john-burdon-sanderson-haldane-on-a-paper-the-external-mechanics-of-the-chromosomes-vithe-behaviour-of-the-centromere-at-meiosis-by-margaret-upcott, accessed on 22 January 2025

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