Paper, 'An account of the cocoa tree' by Th [Thomas] Linch [Lynch]
Reference number: CLP/10i/13
Date: 02 March 1672
Description
A detailed description of cacao trees by Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica. Lynch describes curing the tree's fruit and the methods of growing the cacao tree.
Subject: Botany / Agriculture
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An accurate description of the cacao-tree, and the way of it’s curing and husbandry, &c; given by an intelligent person now residing in Jamaica'.
Read to the Royal Society on 22 May 1672.
- Reference number
- CLP/10i/13
- Earliest possible date
- 02 March 1672
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'An account of the cocoa tree' by Th [Thomas] Linch [Lynch], 02 March 1672, CLP/10i/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_13/paper-an-account-of-the-cocoa-tree-by-th-thomas-linch-lynch, accessed on 27 April 2025
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An accurate description of the cacao-tree, and the way of it’s curing and husbandry, &c; given by an intelligent person now residing in Jamaica External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 21st April 1673
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1673.0009
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