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Referee's report by Reginald Ruggles Gates, on a paper 'Structural analysis of Oenothera complexes' by David Guthrie Catcheside

Reference number: RR/67/50

Date: February 1940

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Different terms are needed for the arrangement of chromosomes. There is no reference to a paper by Sikka which was published in the Journal of Genetics, but several of the conclusions are the same, so the paper should be referenced. There are some wording errors. He needs to see the author's answers to his criticisms.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received 27 February 1940.

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Reginald Ruggles Gates, Referee's report by Reginald Ruggles Gates, on a paper 'Structural analysis of Oenothera complexes' by David Guthrie Catcheside, February 1940, RR/67/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_50/referees-report-by-reginald-ruggles-gates-on-a-paper-structural-analysis-of-oenothera-complexes-by-david-guthrie-catcheside, accessed on 18 May 2025

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