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Letter, 'Observations on the motion of sap in trees' from Thomas Andrew Knight to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/12/69

Date: 1803

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the motion 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 16 February 1804

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L&P/12/69
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1803
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Ink on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Letter, 'Observations on the motion of sap in trees' from Thomas Andrew Knight to Joseph Banks, 1803, L&P/12/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_69/letter-observations-on-the-motion-of-sap-in-trees-from-thomas-andrew-knight-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 21 June 2025

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