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Paper reference code: B.16

Proposes sending the paper to a third physical referee to comment on the physics in the paper, as the first two physical referees disagree with each other.

[Not published].

Received 30 May 1932.

Reference number
RR/W/1/9
Earliest possible date
28 May 1932
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Carbon

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Letter from [David] Keilin 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, 28 May 1932, RR/W/1/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_1_9/letter-from-david-keilin-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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