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Postcard from [Henry] Balfour to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Reference number: RR/W/1/14

Date: 16 June 1932

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Paper reference code: B.16

Apologises for his late reply due to illness. Believes that the paper should be published on the basis of two favourable referees' reports, but that the author should consider an amended draft to address some of the criticisms of the unfavourable referee prior to publication.

[Not published].

Received 17 June 1932.

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RR/W/1/14
Earliest possible date
16 June 1932
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Postcard
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2 pages
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Postcard from [Henry] Balfour to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 16 June 1932, RR/W/1/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_14/postcard-from-henry-balfour-to-the-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society-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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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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