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Ward writes: 'The author finds that the tubercles on the roots of the Leguminoseae are due to the action of a parasitic fungus. Not only has he produced the tubercles by infection from without, but he has also found the infecting agent, and repeatedly seen and figured the infect­ing hypha passing down inside a root-hair and across the cortex of the root into the young tubercle.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Botany

Received 25 April 1887. Read 5 May 1887. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The tubercular swellings on the roots of the Leguminoseæ'.

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PP/10/41
Earliest possible date
1887
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Ink and coloured pencil on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Harry Marshall Ward

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Harry Marshall Ward, Paper, 'The tubercular swellings on the roots of the Leguminoseae' by H [Harry] Marshall Ward, 1887, PP/10/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_10_41/paper-the-tubercular-swellings-on-the-roots-of-the-leguminoseae-by-h-harry-marshall-ward, accessed on 04 November 2024

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