Unpublished paper, 'The Assyrian herbal' by R Campbell Thompson
Reference number: AP/80/13
Date: 1923
Description
Thompson presents a detailed survey of ancient Assyrian vegetables based on his studies of Assyrian medical texts and fragments of cuneiform plant lists.
Subject: Botany / Chemistry / History
Received 1 October 1923. Read 20 March 1924. Communicated by W B [William Bate] Hardy.
A version of this paper was published by Thompson as 'The Assyrian Herbal: a monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs' (London: Luzac, 1924).
- Reference number
- AP/80/13
- Earliest possible date
- 1923
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 317 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished paper, 'The Assyrian herbal' by R Campbell Thompson, 1923, AP/80/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_80_13/unpublished-paper-the-assyrian-herbal-by-r-campbell-thompson, accessed on 17 December 2025
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Archived papers: volume 80, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1848-1926
1848-1926 Reference number: AP/80
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William Bate Hardy
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