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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The structure of insect cuticles' by G Fraenkel and K M Rudall to James Gray

Reference number: RR/69/106

Date: 19 September 1945

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Would like him to suggest a zoologist for the paper. Asks if he will be willing to pass the paper if the report is favourable.

Gray replies that Wigglesworth is a much more suitable referee.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1947].

Endorsed on recto as received 21 September 1945.

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RR/69/106
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19 September 1945
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Memorandum on paper
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Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The structure of insect cuticles' by G Fraenkel and K M Rudall to James Gray, 19 September 1945, RR/69/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_106/memorandum-from-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-the-structure-of-insect-cuticles-by-g-fraenkel-and-k-m-rudall-to-james-gray, accessed on 03 December 2024

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