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Referee's report by Wilfrid Edward le Gros Clark, on a paper 'The heart of the salamander (salamandra salamandra l.), with special reference to the conducting (connecting) system and its bearing on the phylogeny of the conducting systems of mammalian and avian hearts' by F Davies and E T B Francis

Reference number: RR/67/96

Date: December 1940

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Not recommended for publication in its present form. It contains a history of the anatomy and physiolgy of a frog's heart which is contained in another paper. The paper needs to be greatly condensed before publication can be considered. It doesn't contain sufficient new information to justify it's publication.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1941].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 December 1940.

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RR/67/96
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December 1940
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2 pages
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Wilfrid Edward le Gros Clark

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Wilfrid Edward le Gros Clark, Referee's report by Wilfrid Edward le Gros Clark, on a paper 'The heart of the salamander (salamandra salamandra l.), with special reference to the conducting (connecting) system and its bearing on the phylogeny of the conducting systems of mammalian and avian hearts' by F Davies and E T B Francis, December 1940, RR/67/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_96/referees-report-by-wilfrid-edward-le-gros-clark-on-a-paper-the-heart-of-the-salamander-salamandra-salamandra-l-with-special-reference-to-the-conducting-connecting-system-and-its-bearing-on-the-phylogeny-of-the-conducting-systems-of-mammalian-and-avian-hearts-by-f-davies-and-e-t-b-francis, accessed on 17 January 2025

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