Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises. Parts I. & II - Introduction, and the tortoises of the galapagos islands' by Albert Charles Louis Gotthilf Gunther
Reference number: RR/7/309
Date: 25 July 1874
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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'of extreme interest and scientific importance'.
Subject: Zoology
[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1875].
- Reference number
- RR/7/309
- Earliest possible date
- 25 July 1874
- Physical description
- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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George Busk, Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises. Parts I. & II - Introduction, and the tortoises of the galapagos islands' by Albert Charles Louis Gotthilf Gunther, 25 July 1874, RR/7/309, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_309/referees-report-by-george-busk-on-a-paper-description-of-the-living-and-extinct-races-of-gigantic-land-tortoises-parts-i-ii-introduction-and-the-tortoises-of-the-galapagos-islands-by-albert-charles-louis-gotthilf-gunther, accessed on 10 August 2026
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