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Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'The colours of the plumose anemone Metridium senile (L.)' by D L Fox and Carl Frederick Abel Pantin

Reference number: RR/67/152

Date: July 1940

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is satisfactory from a biochemical point of view, but should be looked over by an organic chemist.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1941].

Endorsed on verso as received 3 July 1940.

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RR/67/152
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July 1940
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Henry Stanley Raper, Referee's report by Henry Stanley Raper, on a paper 'The colours of the plumose anemone Metridium senile (L.)' by D L Fox and Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, July 1940, RR/67/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_152/referees-report-by-henry-stanley-raper-on-a-paper-the-colours-of-the-plumose-anemone-metridium-senile-l-by-d-l-fox-and-carl-frederick-abel-pantin, accessed on 21 June 2025

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