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Paper, 'On the inconvertibility of bark into alburnum' by Thomas Andrew Knight in a letter to Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks

Reference number: PT/2/6

Date: 29 December 1807

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the inconvertibility of bark into alburnum'.

Letter written by Knight in Elton. Read 4 February 1808.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/2/6
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29 December 1807
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Paper, 'On the inconvertibility of bark into alburnum' by Thomas Andrew Knight in a letter to Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks, 29 December 1807, PT/2/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_6/paper-on-the-inconvertibility-of-bark-into-alburnum-by-thomas-andrew-knight-in-a-letter-to-sir-jos-joseph-banks, accessed on 15 June 2025

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