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Paper reference code: B.55

Since Fenner's paper is unlikely to be passed for publication by the Publication Committee, Wood Jones asks for the paper to be withdrawn rather than sending it to a second referee.

[Not published].

Received 18 October 1938

Reference number
RR/W/7/34
Earliest possible date
17 October 1938
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Frederic Wood Jones

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Frederic Wood Jones, Letter from F [Frederic] Wood Jones to the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'The Australian aboriginal skull: Its non-metrical morphological characters' by F J Fenner, 17 October 1938, RR/W/7/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_7_34/letter-from-f-frederic-wood-jones-to-the-royal-society-regarding-a-paper-the-australian-aboriginal-skull-its-non-metrical-morphological-characters-by-f-j-fenner, accessed on 12 October 2026

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