Unpublished paper, 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by G [George] Henslow
Reference number: AP/65/4
Date: 1887
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Henslow draws attention to the importance of the class of observations illustrated in this paper, explaining that by referring all the floral organs back to their vascular cords or 'axial traces', their real origins can be discovered, whenever their developmental history is incapable of showing them. He shows how the cords, taken as 'floral units', can give rise to axes as well as all kinds of floral appendages.
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Botany
Received 2 December 1887. Read 22 December 1887. Communicated by Dr B W [Benjamin Ward] Richardson.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 43 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers'.
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- AP/65/4
- Earliest possible date
- 1887
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 116 pages
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- Manuscript
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George Henslow
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George Henslow, Unpublished paper, 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by G [George] Henslow, 1887, AP/65/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_65_4/unpublished-paper-a-contribution-to-the-study-of-the-comparative-anatomy-of-flowers-by-g-george-henslow, accessed on 26 April 2025
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Date: 31st December 1888
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0134
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Archived papers: volume 65, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1887-1888
1887-1888 Reference number: AP/65
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