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Paper, 'On some subterraneous trees discovered at the foot of the cliffs about a mile to the eastward of Mundsley [Mundesley]' by Jeaffreson Miles in a letter to W T [William Thomas] Brande

Reference number: PT/15/23

Date: 07 September 1820

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Subject: Botany

Not published in Philosophical Transactions.

Written by Miles in Knapton, near North Walsham, Norfolk. Read 3 May 1821.

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PT/15/23
Earliest possible date
07 September 1820
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Jeaffreson Miles

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Jeaffreson Miles, Paper, 'On some subterraneous trees discovered at the foot of the cliffs about a mile to the eastward of Mundsley [Mundesley]' by Jeaffreson Miles in a letter to W T [William Thomas] Brande, 07 September 1820, PT/15/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_23/paper-on-some-subterraneous-trees-discovered-at-the-foot-of-the-cliffs-about-a-mile-to-the-eastward-of-mundsley-mundesley-by-jeaffreson-miles-in-a-letter-to-w-t-william-thomas-brande, accessed on 15 January 2025

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