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Sectional committee: Botany

Paper reference code: B49

Recommended for publication in the Philosophical Transactions. After discussing several points with Richards and his agreement to minor changes, Snow has no further comments. Remarks on the 'permanent value' of the paper.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1951].

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/74/65
Earliest possible date
17 February 1951
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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George Robert Sabine Snow

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George Robert Sabine Snow, Referee's report by George Robert Sabine Snow, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, 17 February 1951, RR/74/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_65/referees-report-by-george-robert-sabine-snow-on-a-paper-phyllotaxis-its-quantitative-expression-and-relation-to-growth-in-the-apex-by-francis-john-richards, accessed on 19 May 2026

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