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Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Reproduction in the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus (gunner)' by Leonard Harrison Matthews

Reference number: RR/72/190

Date: June 1949

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is an important and interesting contribution. The writing is clear and readable but it could be edited. Some parts could be left out.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 3 June 1949.

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RR/72/190
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June 1949
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1 page
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Alan Sterling Parkes, Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Reproduction in the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus (gunner)' by Leonard Harrison Matthews, June 1949, RR/72/190, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_190/referees-report-by-alan-sterling-parkes-on-a-paper-reproduction-in-the-basking-shark-cetorhinus-maximus-gunner-by-leonard-harrison-matthews, accessed on 09 August 2026

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