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Letter from [James] Gray to [William Thomas] Calman, Chairman of the Zoology Committee, regarding a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Reference number: RR/W/1/10

Date: 01 June 1932

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Paper reference code: B.16

Informs Calman that he has shown the paper to [Geoffrey Thomas] Bennett, who provided some comments which Gray has enclosed [see RR/W/1/11]. Gray believes it would be simplest to publish the paper, subject to two suggested amendments.

[Not published].

Received 3 June 1932.

Reference number
RR/W/1/10
Earliest possible date
01 June 1932
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from [James] Gray to [William Thomas] Calman, Chairman of the Zoology Committee, regarding a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 01 June 1932, RR/W/1/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_10/letter-from-james-gray-to-william-thomas-calman-chairman-of-the-zoology-committee-regarding-a-paper-the-geometry-of-the-siliceous-skeletons-of-the-radiolaria-by-darcy-wentworth-thompson, accessed on 25 January 2026

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