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Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation I. Origin and stratigraphy of Fenland deposits near Wooldwalton, Hunts II. Origin and stratigraphy of deposits in southern Fenland' by Harry Godwin and M H Clifford

Reference number: RR/65/103

Date: 30 April 1939

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Sectional committee: Geology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is an excellent account and the 'first reasonably complete story' to be written on this subject.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 3 May 1938.

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RR/65/103
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Percy George Hamnall Boswell, Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation I. Origin and stratigraphy of Fenland deposits near Wooldwalton, Hunts II. Origin and stratigraphy of deposits in southern Fenland' by Harry Godwin and M H Clifford, 30 April 1939, RR/65/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_103/referees-report-by-percy-george-hamnall-boswell-on-a-paper-studies-of-the-post-glacial-history-of-british-vegetation-i-origin-and-stratigraphy-of-fenland-deposits-near-wooldwalton-hunts-ii-origin-and-stratigraphy-of-deposits-in-southern-fenland-by-harry-godwin-and-m-h-clifford, accessed on 07 December 2024

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