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Letter from D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Reproduction in the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus (gunner)' by Leonard Harrison Matthews to John Zachary Young

Reference number: RR/72/191

Date: 12 July 1949

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Returns the paper for his final approval.

Young replies that he now agrees to publication. (13 July 1949).

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1950].

Endorsed on recto asd received 14 July 1949.

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RR/72/191
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12 July 1949
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John Zachary Young

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John Zachary Young, Letter from D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'Reproduction in the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus (gunner)' by Leonard Harrison Matthews to John Zachary Young, 12 July 1949, RR/72/191, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_191/letter-from-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-on-a-paper-reproduction-in-the-basking-shark-cetorhinus-maximus-gunner-by-leonard-harrison-matthews-to-john-zachary-young, accessed on 22 April 2026

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