Unpublished paper, 'On leaf arrangement' by Hubert Airy

Description

Airy presents further research on leaf arrangement, including modifications to a theory put forth in an earlier paper abstracted in volume 21 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On leaf-arrangement' (see AP/55/1).

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives Nov 5/74'. Includes two pages of diagrams relating to leaf arrangement.

Subject: Botany / Mathematics

Received 23 March 1874. Read 30 April 1874. Communicated by Charles Darwin.

Written by Airy at Barrow House, Keswick, Cumberland [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 22 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On leaf-arrangement'.

Reference number

AP/56/1

Earliest possible date

20 March 1874

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

61 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram