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

Reference number: L&P/12/51

Date: 1803

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Contains plate.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of some experiments on the descent 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 21 Apirl 1803

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L&P/12/51
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1803
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Ink on paper and plate
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30 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Paper, 'Account of some experiments on the descent of sap in trees' by Thomas Andrew Knight, 1803, L&P/12/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_51/paper-account-of-some-experiments-on-the-descent-of-sap-in-trees-by-thomas-andrew-knight, accessed on 15 October 2024

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