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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle

Reference number: RR/71/240

Date: 1948

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Sectional committee: Physiology

Recommended for publication. Thewre is a trivial error on the first page but otherwise the calculations are correct.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1948].

Date received not given.

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RR/71/240
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1948
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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle, 1948, RR/71/240, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_240/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-the-gyroscopic-mechanism-of-the-halteres-of-diptera-by-john-william-sutton-pringle, accessed on 05 March 2026

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