Letter from John Zachary Young, on a paper 'Observations on the discovery of a new source of food by the honeybee (Apis Mellifera L.)' by Colin Gasking Butler, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society
Reference number: RR/74/61
Date: 12 December 1951
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Paper reference code: B47
Young is still unconvinced the paper is suitable for the Proceedings, however is happy to agree to publication if the other referee, who he presumes is an entomologist, 'feels that the information is sufficiently novel'. Recommends further changes.
Written at University College London, Department of Anatomy [England].
[Published in Proceedings B, 1951].
Endorsed on recto as received 14 February 1951.
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John Zachary Young, Letter from John Zachary Young, on a paper 'Observations on the discovery of a new source of food by the honeybee (Apis Mellifera L.)' by Colin Gasking Butler, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society, 12 December 1951, RR/74/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_61/letter-from-john-zachary-young-on-a-paper-observations-on-the-discovery-of-a-new-source-of-food-by-the-honeybee-apis-mellifera-l-by-colin-gasking-butler-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 August 2026
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