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RefNoAP/65/4
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by G [George] Henslow
CreatorHenslow; George (1835-1925); British botanist
Date1887
DescriptionHenslow draws attention to the importance of the class of observations illustrated in this paper, explaining that by referring all the floral organs back to their vascular cords or 'axial traces', their real origins can be discovered, whenever their developmental history is incapable of showing them. He shows how the cords, taken as 'floral units', can give rise to axes as well as all kinds of floral appendages.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Botany

Received 2 December 1887. Read 22 December 1887. Communicated by Dr B W [Benjamin Ward] Richardson.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 43 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers'.
Extent116p
FormatManuscript
Printed
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsNot available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making.
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0134
RelatedRecordRR/10/46
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4530Richardson; Sir; Benjamin Ward (1828 - 1896)1828 - 1896
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