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Explanation of a figure showing a dried branch of a coffee shrub that was published in Philosophical Transactions. Figure is not included with the manuscript.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part paper titled of 'An account of a prodigiously large feather of the bird cuntur, brought from Chili, and supposed to be a kind of vultur; and of the coffee-shrub'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1694.

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CLP/10i/30
Earliest possible date
1694
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Hans Sloane

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Hans Sloane, Paper, 'On the coffee shrub' by Hans Sloane, 1694, CLP/10i/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_30/paper-on-the-coffee-shrub-by-hans-sloane, accessed on 13 October 2024

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