| RefNo | AP/65/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by G [George] Henslow |
| Creator | Henslow; George (1835-1925); British botanist |
| Date | 1887 |
| Description | Henslow 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'. |
| Extent | 116p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Printed |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0134 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/10/46 |
| RR/10/177 |
| RR/10/178 |
| MC/14/322 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4530 | Richardson; Sir; Benjamin Ward (1828 - 1896) | 1828 - 1896 |