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Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'A contribution to our knowledge of the wood anatomy of a few plants occurring in Bengal belonging to Meliaceae and Rutaceae' by S[Syed] Hedayetullah and A K Chakravorty

Reference number: RR/64/53

Date: February 1937

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Sectional Committee: Botany

No clear statement regarding publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work of Cecil Henry Desch and Karl Pearson. Comments extensively on the statistical portions of the paper.

[Not published]
[Clarification: lead author Syed Hedayetullah (1904-1973) was Economic Botanist to the Government of Bengal, in charge of the studies at the Central Agricultural Research Station, Monipur, Dhaka [Bangladesh], and founding figure of Bangladeshi scientific agriculture, Founding Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 February 1937.

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RR/64/53
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February 1937
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Typescript

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Alexander Craig Aitken

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Alexander Craig Aitken, Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'A contribution to our knowledge of the wood anatomy of a few plants occurring in Bengal belonging to Meliaceae and Rutaceae' by S[Syed] Hedayetullah and A K Chakravorty, February 1937, RR/64/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_53/referees-report-by-alexander-craig-aitken-on-a-paper-a-contribution-to-our-knowledge-of-the-wood-anatomy-of-a-few-plants-occurring-in-bengal-belonging-to-meliaceae-and-rutaceae-by-ssyed-hedayetullah-and-a-k-chakravorty, accessed on 21 April 2026

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