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Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'Effects of X-rays on mitosis and meiosis, II. A new type of effect on the first meiotic division' by M J D White

Reference number: RR/63/129

Date: 23 July 1937

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The figures should be reduced. The effect can't really be described as 'new', since it was demonstrated twenty years prior.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 July 1937.

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James Alexander Murray, Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'Effects of X-rays on mitosis and meiosis, II. A new type of effect on the first meiotic division' by M J D White, 23 July 1937, RR/63/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_129/referees-report-by-james-alexander-murray-on-a-paper-effects-of-x-rays-on-mitosis-and-meiosis-ii-a-new-type-of-effect-on-the-first-meiotic-division-by-m-j-d-white, accessed on 20 March 2025

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