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Paper, 'An account of two plants lately brought from the Cape of Good Hope' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/10i/29

Date: 1692

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Charles Chamberlain presented the Royal Society with two branches with fruit from a silver pine tree brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr Goddard. The author describes the tree in depth.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of two plants lately brought from the Cape of Good-hope'.

Communicated by Hans Sloane. Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1692.

Reference number
CLP/10i/29
Earliest possible date
1692
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'An account of two plants lately brought from the Cape of Good Hope' by unknown author, 1692, CLP/10i/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_29/paper-an-account-of-two-plants-lately-brought-from-the-cape-of-good-hope-by-unknown-author, accessed on 20 April 2025

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