Paper, 'Experiments concerning the motion of the sap in trees made this spring' by Francis Willughby and Mr [John] Wray [Ray]
Reference number: CLP/10i/12
Date: 1669

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An account of 13 experiments carried out on sap from birch, willow, and sycamore trees as the weather changed in the spring.
Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments concerning the motion of the sap in trees, made this spring by Mr. Willugby, and Mr. Wray, Fellowes of the R. Society: and communicated to the publisher of the inquiries touching that subject in Numb. 40',, vol 4, no 48, p 963.
Read to the Royal Society in June 1669.
- Reference number
- CLP/10i/12
- Earliest possible date
- 1669
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Ray, Francis Willughby, Paper, 'Experiments concerning the motion of the sap in trees made this spring' by Francis Willughby and Mr [John] Wray [Ray], 1669, CLP/10i/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_12/paper-experiments-concerning-the-motion-of-the-sap-in-trees-made-this-spring-by-francis-willughby-and-mr-john-wray-ray, accessed on 16 February 2025
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Authors: Francis Willughby; John Ray
Date: 21st June 1669
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1669.0019
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