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Referee's report by 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/72/207

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. He cannot comment on the mathematical methods employed in the paper. The paper is of 'considerable interest and originality'. Modifications should be made.

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

Date received not given.

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RR/72/207
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1949
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Standardised form (type E) and note on paper
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6 pages
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Typescript
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Julian Sorell Huxley, Referee's report by 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, 1949, RR/72/207, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_207/referees-report-by-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 12 February 2026

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