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Letter from Walter Stiles, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/74/66

Date: 02 May 1951

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Paper reference code: B49

Stiles has reported favourably on Richards paper, however remarks he does not have a 'deep acquaintance' with the subject matter. In his opinion the only Fellow capable of making a sound judgment on the paper is George Robert Sabine Snow, and if Snow's report is 'contrary' to Stiles, he would defer to Snow's opinion.

Written at The University, Edgbaston, Birmingham [England].

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1951].

Endorsed on recto as received 3 May 1951.

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02 May 1951
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Walter Stiles, Letter from Walter Stiles, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society, 02 May 1951, RR/74/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_66/letter-from-walter-stiles-on-a-paper-phyllotaxis-its-quantitative-expression-and-relation-to-growth-in-the-apex-by-francis-john-richards-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 19 May 2026

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