| RefNo | AP/73/3 | 
| Level | Item | 
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Preliminary communication on a theory of the suction-force of branches' by Sidney Howard Vines | 
| Date | 1896 | 
| Description | Vines presents brief observations on the 'suction-force of branches', beginning with [Henry Horatio] Dixon and [John] Joly's statement that 'Our theory is that this [the suction-force of the leaf] is the all-sufficient cause of the elevation of the sap, not however by establishing differences of gas-pressure, but by exerting a simple tensile stress on the liquid in the conduits.'
  Annotations in ink throughout.
  Subject: Botany
  Received 21 December 1896.  | 
| Extent | 4p | 
| Format | Manuscript | 
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper | 
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making | 
| AccessStatus | Open | 
| RelatedRecord | NLB/14/221 | 
| RR/13/298 | 
| RR/13/299 | 
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates | 
| NA2865 | Vines; Sidney Howard (1849 - 1934) | 1849 - 1934 | 
| NA1758 | Dixon; Henry Horatio (1869 - 1953) | 1869 - 1953 | 
| NA824 | Joly; John (1857 - 1933); geologist and physicist | 1857 - 1933 |