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Letter from Peter Martin Duncan, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Palaeocoryne, a genus of tubularine hydrozoa from the Carboniferous formation' by Peter Martin Duncan and H M Jenkins

Reference number: RR/6/108

Date: 06 September 1869

Description

Has taken the suggestions of the referee's report on board and appended a statement about the calcareous nature of the fossils. Does not agree with the referee's opinion that the conclusion is too confident. Wishes to see the artist 'because he will have to draw the fossils themselves'.

Subject: Geology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Reference number
RR/6/108
Earliest possible date
06 September 1869
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Peter Martin Duncan, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On Palaeocoryne, a genus of tubularine hydrozoa from the Carboniferous formation' by Peter Martin Duncan and H M Jenkins, 06 September 1869, RR/6/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_108/letter-from-peter-martin-duncan-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-on-palaeocoryne-a-genus-of-tubularine-hydrozoa-from-the-carboniferous-formation-by-peter-martin-duncan-and-h-m-jenkins, accessed on 27 April 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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