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Letter from George Robert Sabine Snow, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, to [the Royal Society]

Reference number: RR/74/64

Date: 13 January 1951

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Paper reference code: B49

Snow would like permission to discuss some minor points with Richards directly regarding his paper.

Written at Dunstan Road, Headington [England].

[Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1951].

Endorsed on recto as received 15 January 1951.

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RR/74/64
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13 January 1951
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Manuscript

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George Robert Sabine Snow

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George Robert Sabine Snow, Letter from George Robert Sabine Snow, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, to [the Royal Society], 13 January 1951, RR/74/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_74_64/letter-from-george-robert-sabine-snow-on-a-paper-phyllotaxis-its-quantitative-expression-and-relation-to-growth-in-the-apex-by-francis-john-richards-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 10 April 2026

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