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Letter, 'Observations on the grafting of trees' from Thomas Andrew Knight to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/10/114

Date: 13 April 1795

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the grafting of trees. In a letter from Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart P. R. S'

Read 30 April 1795

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L&P/10/114
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13 April 1795
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Letter, 'Observations on the grafting of trees' from Thomas Andrew Knight to Joseph Banks, 13 April 1795, L&P/10/114, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_114/letter-observations-on-the-grafting-of-trees-from-thomas-andrew-knight-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 17 May 2025

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