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Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley, 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/72/206

Date: 13 February 1950

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He is sorry that Martin didn't let him see the report of the mathematician. He wanted to know how the author's methods were relevant to his methods. He attended the meeting in which the author read his paper but he didn't refer to the relations between methods.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 13th February 1950.

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RR/72/206
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13 February 1950
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Julian Sorell Huxley

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Julian Sorell Huxley, Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley, 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, 13 February 1950, RR/72/206, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_206/letter-from-julian-sorell-huxley-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 14 October 2024

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