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Letter from Reginald Ruggles Gates, on a paper 'Structural analysis of Oenothera complexes' by David Guthrie Catcheside to J D Griffiths Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/67/51

Date: 18 April 1940

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Sectional committee: [Botany]

The author's claim that the term 'chromosome catenatiom' is misleading is incorrect, as it has been used widely for a number of years. There is no other term in use, except 'chromosome configuration', which is misleading. Only the technical term should be used.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 19 April 1940.

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Reginald Ruggles Gates, Letter from Reginald Ruggles Gates, on a paper 'Structural analysis of Oenothera complexes' by David Guthrie Catcheside to J D Griffiths Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 18 April 1940, RR/67/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_51/letter-from-reginald-ruggles-gates-on-a-paper-structural-analysis-of-oenothera-complexes-by-david-guthrie-catcheside-to-j-d-griffiths-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 19 May 2025

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