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Description

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it doesn't contain 'anything of the slightest novelty'.

Subject: Unknown

[Not published].

Reference number
RR/7/86
Earliest possible date
30 October 1871
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Busk

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Citation

George Busk, Referee's report by George Busk, on an unnamed paper by Chimmo, 30 October 1871, RR/7/86, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_86/referees-report-by-george-busk-on-an-unnamed-paper-by-chimmo, accessed on 13 August 2026

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