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Letter, 'On the reproduction of buds' from Thomas Andrew Knight to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/12/104

Date: 1805

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the reproduction of buds. In a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K. B. P. R. S'

Read 23 May 1805

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L&P/12/104
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1805
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Ink on paper
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13 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Letter, 'On the reproduction of buds' from Thomas Andrew Knight to Joseph Banks, 1805, L&P/12/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_104/letter-on-the-reproduction-of-buds-from-thomas-andrew-knight-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 15 March 2026

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