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

Reference number: RR/63/117

Date: July 1937

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It contains valuable observations, although the author refers to explanations which could have been omitted.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 8 July 1937.

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RR/63/117
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July 1937
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2 pages
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John Bretland Farmer, Referee's report by John Bretland Farmer, on a paper 'The external mechanics of the chromosomes VI—The behaviour of the centromere at meiosis' by Margaret Upcott, July 1937, RR/63/117, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_117/referees-report-by-john-bretland-farmer-on-a-paper-the-external-mechanics-of-the-chromosomes-vithe-behaviour-of-the-centromere-at-meiosis-by-margaret-upcott, accessed on 12 February 2025

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