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Paper, 'On the comparative influence of male and female parents on their offspring' by T A [Thomas Andrew] Knight in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks

Reference number: PT/3/24

Date: 20 May 1809

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transaction as 'On the comparative influence of male and female parents on their offspring'.

Written by Knight at Downton. Read 22 June 1809.

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/3/24
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20 May 1809
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17 pages
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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Paper, 'On the comparative influence of male and female parents on their offspring' by T A [Thomas Andrew] Knight in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks, 20 May 1809, PT/3/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_24/paper-on-the-comparative-influence-of-male-and-female-parents-on-their-offspring-by-t-a-thomas-andrew-knight-in-a-letter-to-the-right-hon-sir-jos-joseph-banks, accessed on 13 October 2024

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