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Committee report, on a paper 'Description of some remains of the gigantic land-lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen), from Australia.—Part II' by Richard Owen

Reference number: RR/8/241

Date: 1880

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The undersigned agree with the report of George Busk [RR/8/238], that the change of sytematics be more clearly stated, with the paper going forward for printing.
William Spottiswoode
George Gabriel Stokes
Thomas Henry Huxley
John Evans

Subject: Zoology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1880]

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RR/8/241
Earliest possible date
1880
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Typescript

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Committee report, on a paper 'Description of some remains of the gigantic land-lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen), from Australia.—Part II' by Richard Owen, 1880, RR/8/241, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_241/committee-report-on-a-paper-description-of-some-remains-of-the-gigantic-land-lizard-megalania-prisca-owen-from-australiapart-ii-by-richard-owen, accessed on 14 January 2025

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