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The author describes the appearance, composition, fruit, and growth of the allspice tree and the cortex winteranus, or wild cinnamon tree. Includes original engraved figure.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description of the pimienta or Jamaica pepper-tree, and of the tree that bears the cortex winteranus'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 February 1690.

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CLP/10i/28
Earliest possible date
1690
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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Hans Sloane

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Hans Sloane, Paper, 'A description of the pimiento or Jamaica pepper tree and of the tree that bears the cortex winteranus' by Hans Sloane, 1690, CLP/10i/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_28/paper-a-description-of-the-pimiento-or-jamaica-pepper-tree-and-of-the-tree-that-bears-the-cortex-winteranus-by-hans-sloane, accessed on 13 October 2024

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