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Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, 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/7/278

Date: 08 April 1873

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The referee 'hesitates not to recommend' that the paper be published in Philosophical Transactions. It appears 'too lengthy', although the author should not shorten 'what appears to be at first sight laboured descriptions of the parts'. Also, the drawings require references.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].

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RR/7/278
Earliest possible date
08 April 1873
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Etheridge

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Robert Etheridge, Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures. Part IV - Dictyoxlon, lyginodendron, and heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson, 08 April 1873, RR/7/278, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_278/referees-report-by-robert-etheridge-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 10 February 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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