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Referee's report by Charles James Fox Bunbury, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures. Part IV - Dictyoxlon, lyginodendron, and heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson

Reference number: RR/7/277

Date: 18 February 1873

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a sequel to previous papers on the subject and 'consists, like them, of most careful, minute and elaborate descriptions of the microscopic structure of the plants referred to'.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].

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RR/7/277
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18 February 1873
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles James Fox Bunbury

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Charles James Fox Bunbury, Referee's report by Charles James Fox Bunbury, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures. Part IV - Dictyoxlon, lyginodendron, and heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson, 18 February 1873, RR/7/277, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_277/referees-report-by-charles-james-fox-bunbury-on-a-paper-on-the-organization-of-the-fossil-plants-of-the-coal-measures-part-iv-dictyoxlon-lyginodendron-and-heterangium-by-william-crawford-williamson, accessed on 09 October 2026

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