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Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On leaf-arrangement' by Hubert Airy

Reference number: RR/7/285

Date: 25 June 1874

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Referee declines to review the paper, as he 'cannot rightly appreciate the mathematical bearings'.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].

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RR/7/285
Earliest possible date
25 June 1874
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Oliver

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Daniel Oliver, Referee's report by Daniel Oliver, on a paper 'On leaf-arrangement' by Hubert Airy, 25 June 1874, RR/7/285, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_285/referees-report-by-daniel-oliver-on-a-paper-on-leaf-arrangement-by-hubert-airy, accessed on 14 October 2024

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