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Paper reference code: B.121

Asks Watson to act as Chairman of Zoology Committee, as [Edgar Johnson] Allen is acting as Communicator. Asks view on [James] Gray as referee, and whether the paper can be progressed following 'an entirely favourable report'. Watson is unable to act as Chairman as he is about to go to America, and approves of Gray as referee.

[Not published, but part I and II published in the Proceedings B in 1932 and 1936].

Received 10 March 1937

Reference number
RR/W/5/56
Earliest possible date
08 March 1937
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Memorandum on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript
Typescript

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James Gray

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Ronald Winckworth

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James Gray, Ronald Winckworth, Memorandum from [Ronald] Winckworth to [David Meredith Seares] Watson regarding a paper 'On the nature and permeability of Chitin, III - The nature and origin of the membranes surrounding the developing eggs of Homarus vulgaris' by [Charles Maurice] Yonge, 08 March 1937, RR/W/5/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_56/memorandum-from-ronald-winckworth-to-david-meredith-seares-watson-regarding-a-paper-on-the-nature-and-permeability-of-chitin-iii-the-nature-and-origin-of-the-membranes-surrounding-the-developing-eggs-of-homarus-vulgaris-by-charles-maurice-yonge, accessed on 14 June 2026

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