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Paper reference code: B.111

Estimates length of paper. Reports that [Herbert] J Fleure has been put forward as one referee, and [Henry] Balfour, [Charles Gabriel] Seligman, and [Wilfrid Edward] Le Gros Clark have been suggested as the second referee. Asks Woodward's opinion on this.

Woodward recommends [Martin Alister Campbell] Hinton as the first referee, and Fleure as the second.

[Not published in Royal Society journals, but printed as an occasional paper by the University of London Institute of Archaeology in 1939].

Received 6 February 1937

Reference number
RR/W/5/18
Earliest possible date
04 February 1937
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Memorandum on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Typescript
Manuscript

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Ronald Winckworth

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Ronald Winckworth, Memorandum from [Ronald] Winckworth to Arthur Smith Woodward, regarding a paper 'The age of Sinanthropus - An attempted correlation of quaternary geology, palaeontology and prehistory in Europe and China' by Wen-Chung Pei [Pei Wenzhong], 04 February 1937, RR/W/5/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_18/memorandum-from-ronald-winckworth-to-arthur-smith-woodward-regarding-a-paper-the-age-of-sinanthropus-an-attempted-correlation-of-quaternary-geology-palaeontology-and-prehistory-in-europe-and-china-by-wen-chung-pei-pei-wenzhong, accessed on 10 December 2025

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