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Referee's report by Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, on a paper 'On the fossil mammals of Australia - Part III. Diprotodon australis' by Richard Owen

Reference number: RR/7/46

Date: 19 March 1870

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.The paper includes an 'all but complete framework of an extinct animal'.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].

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RR/7/46
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19 March 1870
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Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

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Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Referee's report by Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, on a paper 'On the fossil mammals of Australia - Part III. Diprotodon australis' by Richard Owen, 19 March 1870, RR/7/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_46/referees-report-by-philip-de-malpas-grey-egerton-on-a-paper-on-the-fossil-mammals-of-australia-part-iii-diprotodon-australis-by-richard-owen, accessed on 19 July 2026

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