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Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on a paper 'On the intra-ovarian egg of some osseous fishes' by Robert Scharff

Reference number: RR/9/398

Date: 18 December 1886

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it is 'not sufficiently important' enough. The paper could be published in Proceedings, along with the illustrations. The paper is 'valuable though fragmentary'.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1886].

Reference number
RR/9/398
Earliest possible date
18 December 1886
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 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 'On the intra-ovarian egg of some osseous fishes' by Robert Scharff, 18 December 1886, RR/9/398, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_398/referees-report-by-edwin-ray-lankester-on-a-paper-on-the-intra-ovarian-egg-of-some-osseous-fishes-by-robert-scharff, accessed on 18 September 2024

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