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Copy of Referee's comments [by Herbert Leader Hawkins], on a paper 'The phylogeny of the ammonite family Liparoceratidae' by [Leonard Frank] Spath

Reference number: RR/W/5/35

Date: 06 April 1937

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Paper reference code: B.117

Describes the style as 'bewildering' and states that the arguments are not well explained. Recommends that the systematic section of the paper should be published elsewhere, ahead of publication of the first section, subject to alterations.

[Not published].

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RR/W/5/35
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06 April 1937
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Herbert Leader Hawkins

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Herbert Leader Hawkins, Copy of Referee's comments [by Herbert Leader Hawkins], on a paper 'The phylogeny of the ammonite family Liparoceratidae' by [Leonard Frank] Spath, 06 April 1937, RR/W/5/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_35/copy-of-referees-comments-by-herbert-leader-hawkins-on-a-paper-the-phylogeny-of-the-ammonite-family-liparoceratidae-by-leonard-frank-spath, accessed on 14 June 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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