Unpublished paper, 'On injuries inflicted on plants by aphides [aphids] especially in relation to the present epidemic in the potato and other plants' by Alfred Smee
Reference number: AP/29/15
Date: 06 December 1846

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Smee writes on the destructive power of aphids (Aphidoidea), describing the appearance of aphids including the 'elongated lancet' and rostrum which are used to break up the cellular tissue of plants and 'suck the juices to satisfy the wants of the creature'.
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Botany
Received 7 December 1846 / 10 December 1846.
Written by Smee at 7 Finsbury Circus [London].
- Reference number
- AP/29/15
- Earliest possible date
- 06 December 1846
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 16 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Alfred Smee, Unpublished paper, 'On injuries inflicted on plants by aphides [aphids] especially in relation to the present epidemic in the potato and other plants' by Alfred Smee, 06 December 1846, AP/29/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_29_15/unpublished-paper-on-injuries-inflicted-on-plants-by-aphides-aphids-especially-in-relation-to-the-present-epidemic-in-the-potato-and-other-plants-by-alfred-smee, accessed on 09 July 2025
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Archived papers: volume 29, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1846-1848
1846-1848 Reference number: AP/29
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