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Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'The motor nervous system of the starfish, Astropecten irregularis (Pennant), with special reference to the innervation of the tube feet and ampullae' by James Eric Smith

Reference number: RR/72/237

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Zoology

Recommended for publication. The style of the paper is heavy and it should be shortened throughout . It is an 'extremely fine piece of work' but has been written with a misconceived idea of the terms 'metamorism' and 'metameric segmentation'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1940].

Date received not given.

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RR/72/237
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1949
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1 page
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Herbert Graham Cannon, Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'The motor nervous system of the starfish, Astropecten irregularis (Pennant), with special reference to the innervation of the tube feet and ampullae' by James Eric Smith, 1949, RR/72/237, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_237/referees-report-by-herbert-graham-cannon-on-a-paper-the-motor-nervous-system-of-the-starfish-astropecten-irregularis-pennant-with-special-reference-to-the-innervation-of-the-tube-feet-and-ampullae-by-james-eric-smith, accessed on 10 December 2024

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