Item SJS - John Scott Sanderson prize essay manuscript; ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’

1 manuscript document; 1cm

It is assumed the document would have been submitted to John Hutton Balfour as part of Sanderson's University Botany course in 1849.

Sanderson's Prize essay manuscript, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’, submitted in July 1849 as part of his Botany course for his Medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson has illustrated the manuscript with pencil illustrations drawn from the microscope.
Impressed by the content, Hutton Balfour deemed it worthy of a prize, with part of the content read at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in February 1850.

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