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Paper, 'Examination of the proximate principles of some of the lichens' by John Stenhouse

Reference number: PT/34/4

Date: 25 January 1848

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54 manuscript pages including two figures.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Examination of the proximate principles of some of the lichens'.

Written by Stenhouse in Glasgow. Communicated by T [Thomas] Graham. Received by the Royal Society on 27 January 1848. Read 3 February 1848.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/34/4
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25 January 1848
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Ink on paper
Page extent
54 pages
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Manuscript

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John Stenhouse

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John Stenhouse, Paper, 'Examination of the proximate principles of some of the lichens' by John Stenhouse, 25 January 1848, PT/34/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_34_4/paper-examination-of-the-proximate-principles-of-some-of-the-lichens-by-john-stenhouse, accessed on 20 April 2025

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