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Referee's report by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, on a paper 'A survey of anthocyanins VII. The natural selection of flower colour' by Geoffrey Herbert Beale, James Robert Price and V C Sturgess

Reference number: RR/68/9

Date: 01 March 1941

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Sectional Committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper uses methods outlined in the Philosophical Transactions.

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 verso as received 3 March 1941.

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RR/68/9
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01 March 1941
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2 pages
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William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, Referee's report by William Ringrose Gelston Atkins, on a paper 'A survey of anthocyanins VII. The natural selection of flower colour' by Geoffrey Herbert Beale, James Robert Price and V C Sturgess, 01 March 1941, RR/68/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_9/referees-report-by-william-ringrose-gelston-atkins-on-a-paper-a-survey-of-anthocyanins-vii-the-natural-selection-of-flower-colour-by-geoffrey-herbert-beale-james-robert-price-and-v-c-sturgess, accessed on 24 May 2025

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