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Paper, 'On a substance from the elm tree, called ulmin' by James Smithson

Reference number: PT/7/6

Date: 1812

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the substance from the elm tree, called ulmin'.

Read 10 December 1812.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/7/6
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1812
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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James Smithson

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James Smithson, Paper, 'On a substance from the elm tree, called ulmin' by James Smithson, 1812, PT/7/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_6/paper-on-a-substance-from-the-elm-tree-called-ulmin-by-james-smithson, accessed on 07 December 2024

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