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Letter from Harry Eltringham to the Sectional Committee for Zoology, regarding a paper 'Variation in wings of Plecoptera' by [Arthur] Willey

Reference number: RR/W/3/5

Date: 19 September 1935

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Paper reference code: B.60

States that the paper shows 'painstaking and elaborate research'. Explains that it is difficult to quantify its scientific value, but that the paper would be very useful to students. Recommends the paper for publication.

[Not published in Royal Society journals but likely reworked as article published in Nature, volume 140, pp.112-113, 1937].

Received 20 September 1935

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RR/W/3/5
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19 September 1935
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Letter on paper
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Harry Eltringham

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Harry Eltringham, Letter from Harry Eltringham to the Sectional Committee for Zoology, regarding a paper 'Variation in wings of Plecoptera' by [Arthur] Willey, 19 September 1935, RR/W/3/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_3_5/letter-from-harry-eltringham-to-the-sectional-committee-for-zoology-regarding-a-paper-variation-in-wings-of-plecoptera-by-arthur-willey, accessed on 18 August 2026

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