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Letter from Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'The form-transformation of the abdomen of the female pea-crab, Pinnotheres pisum Leach' by A E Needham to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/72/205

Date: 31 October 1949

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He submitted the paper to a young mathematician called George Owen. There is no doubt of the competence of the work.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 2 November 1949.

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RR/72/205
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31 October 1949
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1 page
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Typescript

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Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Letter from Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'The form-transformation of the abdomen of the female pea-crab, Pinnotheres pisum Leach' by A E Needham to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 31 October 1949, RR/72/205, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_205/letter-from-ronald-aylmer-fisher-on-a-paper-the-form-transformation-of-the-abdomen-of-the-female-pea-crab-pinnotheres-pisum-leach-by-a-e-needham-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 24 March 2025

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