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Referee's report by the Commitee of Botany, on a paper 'Experimental inquiry into the cause of the ascent and continued motion of the sap; with a new method of preparing plants for physiological investigations' by George Rainey

Reference number: RR/1/190

Date: c.1837

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Botany

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1837].

Reference number
RR/1/190
Earliest possible date
c.1837
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Referee's report by the Commitee of Botany, on a paper 'Experimental inquiry into the cause of the ascent and continued motion of the sap; with a new method of preparing plants for physiological investigations' by George Rainey, c.1837, RR/1/190, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_190/referees-report-by-the-commitee-of-botany-on-a-paper-experimental-inquiry-into-the-cause-of-the-ascent-and-continued-motion-of-the-sap-with-a-new-method-of-preparing-plants-for-physiological-investigations-by-george-rainey, accessed on 22 June 2025

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