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Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'The mechanics and innervation of the starfish tube foot-ampulla system' by J E Smith

Reference number: RR/68/503

Date: 04 December 1944

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Sectional Committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Suggests improving the gridlines on the figures. Requests permission to waive anonymity to correspond directly with the author. Provides detailed list of specific criticisms, mostly relating to points of anatomy.

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 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

No received date.

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RR/68/503
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04 December 1944
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Standardised form (type E) and letter on paper
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2 pages
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Herbert Graham Cannon, Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'The mechanics and innervation of the starfish tube foot-ampulla system' by J E Smith, 04 December 1944, RR/68/503, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_503/referees-report-by-herbert-graham-cannon-on-a-paper-the-mechanics-and-innervation-of-the-starfish-tube-foot-ampulla-system-by-j-e-smith, accessed on 15 September 2024

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