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Paper, 'Account of experiments on the ascent of sap in trees' by Thomas Andrew Knight

Reference number: L&P/11/162

Date: 22 February 1801

Description

Contains three plates.

Subject: Botanty

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of some experiments on the ascent of the sap in trees. In a letter from Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S'

Read 14 May 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/162
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22 February 1801
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
35 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Franz Andreas Bauer, Paper, 'Account of experiments on the ascent of sap in trees' by Thomas Andrew Knight, 22 February 1801, L&P/11/162, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_162/paper-account-of-experiments-on-the-ascent-of-sap-in-trees-by-thomas-andrew-knight, accessed on 21 June 2025

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