Paper, 'On the causes and phenomena of the repulsion of water from the feathers of water-fowl and the leaves of plants' by George Buist
Reference number: AP/39/36
Date: 1857
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Buist shares his observations on lilypads (Nymphaeaceae) and lotus leaves (Nelumbo nucifera) in a pond.
Subject: Chemistry / Biology
Received 3 April 1857.
Written by Buist in Bombay [Mumbai].
A version of this paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the causes and phenomena of the repulsion of water from the feathers of water-fowl and the leaves of plants'.
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George Buist, Paper, 'On the causes and phenomena of the repulsion of water from the feathers of water-fowl and the leaves of plants' by George Buist, 1857, AP/39/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_36/paper-on-the-causes-and-phenomena-of-the-repulsion-of-water-from-the-feathers-of-water-fowl-and-the-leaves-of-plants-by-george-buist, accessed on 17 January 2026
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Date: 31st December 1857
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0136
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Archived papers: volume 39, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1856-1857
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