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Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'On the development and morphology of phylloglossum drummondii' by Frederick Orpen Bower

Reference number: RR/9/254

Date: 20 August 1885

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is a 'very valuable contribution of an extremely interesting subject'.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1885].

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RR/9/254
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20 August 1885
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Isaac Bayley Balfour

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Isaac Bayley Balfour, Referee's report by Isaac Bayley Balfour, on a paper 'On the development and morphology of phylloglossum drummondii' by Frederick Orpen Bower, 20 August 1885, RR/9/254, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_254/referees-report-by-isaac-bayley-balfour-on-a-paper-on-the-development-and-morphology-of-phylloglossum-drummondii-by-frederick-orpen-bower, accessed on 06 June 2026

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