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Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Preliminary observations on the locomotor system of medusae' by George John Romanes

Reference number: RR/7/473

Date: 19 January 1876

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Some paragraphs should be omitted and the author should include 'a brief reference to Haeckel's statements on the structured question'.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1876].

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RR/7/473
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19 January 1876
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edwin Ray Lankester

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Edwin Ray Lankester, Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'Preliminary observations on the locomotor system of medusae' by George John Romanes, 19 January 1876, RR/7/473, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_473/referees-report-by-edwin-ray-lankester-on-a-paper-preliminary-observations-on-the-locomotor-system-of-medusae-by-george-john-romanes, accessed on 24 January 2026

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