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Letter from [Reginald] Ruggles Gates to [Archibald Vivian] Hill, regarding a paper 'A contribution to our knowledge of the wood-anatomy of a few plants occurring in Bengal belonging to Meliaceae and Rutaceae' by S [Syed] Hedayetullah and A K Chakravorty

Reference number: RR/W/5/12

Date: 17 February 1937

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Paper reference code: B.101

Acknowledges the referees' comments and requests that the paper be withdrawn.
[Clarification: lead author Syed Hedayetullah (1904-1973) was Economic Botanist to the Government of Bengal, in charge of the studies at the Central Agricultural Research Station, Monipur, Dhaka [Bangladesh], and founding figure of Bangladeshi scientific agriculture, Founding Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences]

[Not published].

Received 18 February 1937

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RR/W/5/12
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17 February 1937
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Letter from [Reginald] Ruggles Gates to [Archibald Vivian] Hill, regarding a paper 'A contribution to our knowledge of the wood-anatomy of a few plants occurring in Bengal belonging to Meliaceae and Rutaceae' by S [Syed] Hedayetullah and A K Chakravorty, 17 February 1937, RR/W/5/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_12/letter-from-reginald-ruggles-gates-to-archibald-vivian-hill-regarding-a-paper-a-contribution-to-our-knowledge-of-the-wood-anatomy-of-a-few-plants-occurring-in-bengal-belonging-to-meliaceae-and-rutaceae-by-s-syed-hedayetullah-and-a-k-chakravorty, accessed on 14 May 2026

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