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Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'On the bicoecidae: a family of colourless flagellates' by L E R Picken

Reference number: RR/67/337

Date: 18 September 1940

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author had contacted him previously and he provided suggestions for improvement. The author has applied these all to the paper and it is suitable for publication.

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 20 September 1940.

Reference number
RR/67/337
Earliest possible date
18 September 1940
Physical description
Standardised form (type E) and letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Cecil Clifford Dobell

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Cecil Clifford Dobell, Referee's report by Cecil Clifford Dobell, on a paper 'On the bicoecidae: a family of colourless flagellates' by L E R Picken, 18 September 1940, RR/67/337, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_337/referees-report-by-cecil-clifford-dobell-on-a-paper-on-the-bicoecidae-a-family-of-colourless-flagellates-by-l-e-r-picken, accessed on 10 February 2025

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