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Excerpt, 'Excerpta ex literis D Petri Hotton Botan. profess. in Academ. Lugduno Batava ad editorim de Ahmella et ejus facultate lithontriptica' by Pieter Hotton

Reference number: CLP/10i/39

Date: 1700

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Excerpts of letters from Hotton to the editor providing an account of the plant genus called acmella found in Ceylon [Sri Lanka].

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Excerpta ex literis D. Petri Hotton Med. & Botan. Profess in Acad. Lugduno Batava, ad editorem de Acemella & ejus facultate lithontriptica'.

Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1700.

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CLP/10i/39
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1700
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Pieter Hotton

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Pieter Hotton, Excerpt, 'Excerpta ex literis D Petri Hotton Botan. profess. in Academ. Lugduno Batava ad editorim de Ahmella et ejus facultate lithontriptica' by Pieter Hotton, 1700, CLP/10i/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_39/excerpt-excerpta-ex-literis-d-petri-hotton-botan-profess-in-academ-lugduno-batava-ad-editorim-de-ahmella-et-ejus-facultate-lithontriptica-by-pieter-hotton, accessed on 19 April 2025

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