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Lowe shares observations on the temperatures of flowers and leaves taken at Beeston Observatory [England] in 1859 and 1860. He also shares details of the instruments used in taking the readings.

Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Biology / Meteorology

Received April 16 1860. Communicated by Thomas Bell.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the temperature of the flowers and leaves of plants'.

Reference number
AP/43/7
Earliest possible date
1860
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
39 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edward Joseph Lowe

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Edward Joseph Lowe, Unpublished paper, 'On the temperature of flowers and leaves of plants' by E J [Edward Joseph] Lowe, 1860, AP/43/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_43_7/unpublished-paper-on-the-temperature-of-flowers-and-leaves-of-plants-by-e-j-edward-joseph-lowe, accessed on 14 August 2026

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