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Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, 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/67/99

Date: November 1940

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The historical introduction should be condensed.

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 28 November 1940.

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RR/67/99
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November 1940
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Alan Nigel Drury, Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, 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, November 1940, RR/67/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_99/referees-report-by-alan-nigel-drury-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 24 March 2025

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