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Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'On the incidence of the breeding season in mammals after transference to a new latitude' by John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford and Francis Hugh Adam Marshall

Reference number: RR/68/131

Date: October 1941

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper may have been more suitable for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, although a previous paper by the same authors has already been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, so the current paper should also appear there.

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 the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on recto as received 9 October 1941.

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RR/68/131
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October 1941
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Alan Sterling Parkes, Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'On the incidence of the breeding season in mammals after transference to a new latitude' by John Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford and Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, October 1941, RR/68/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_131/referees-report-by-alan-sterling-parkes-on-a-paper-on-the-incidence-of-the-breeding-season-in-mammals-after-transference-to-a-new-latitude-by-john-ian-robert-russell-13th-duke-of-bedford-and-francis-hugh-adam-marshall, accessed on 16 January 2025

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