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Referee's report by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, on a paper 'The development of the bristles in normal and some mutant types of Drosophila melanogaster' by Anthony David Lees and Conrad Hal Waddington

Reference number: RR/68/238

Date: 1942

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the authors use standard convention in the use of the term 'compound'. Seds a list of errata for the authors.

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']

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RR/68/238
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1942
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2 pages
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Referee's report by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, on a paper 'The development of the bristles in normal and some mutant types of Drosophila melanogaster' by Anthony David Lees and Conrad Hal Waddington, 1942, RR/68/238, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_238/referees-report-by-john-burdon-sanderson-haldane-on-a-paper-the-development-of-the-bristles-in-normal-and-some-mutant-types-of-drosophila-melanogaster-by-anthony-david-lees-and-conrad-hal-waddington, accessed on 08 December 2023

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