Paper, 'Storax liquida alias rosa mallas' by James Petiver
Reference number: CLP/10i/41
Date: 1707
Description
Paper regarding styrax liquida, the liquid amber-like gum produced by the Turkish sweetgum tree, which Petiver describes as growing on the island of Cobross, at the upper end of the Red Sea near Cadess.
Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Manner of making styrax liquida, alias rosa mallas. Communicated by Mr. James Petiver, F. R. S'.
Read to the Royal Society on 11 February 1707.
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- CLP/10i/41
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- 1707
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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James Petiver, Paper, 'Storax liquida alias rosa mallas' by James Petiver, 1707, CLP/10i/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_41/paper-storax-liquida-alias-rosa-mallas-by-james-petiver, accessed on 18 April 2025
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Date: 1st February 1708
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0005
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