Paper, 'An account of the cinnamon tree in Ceylon and its several sorts' by Albertus Seba
Reference number: CLP/10ii/5
Date: 1720s
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Details about different types of cinnamon and about trade in cinnamon; details about its medicinal qualities. Communicated by the Chief Inspector of the cinnamon trade and manufacture in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] to Albertus Seba, a druggist in Amsterdam.
Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the cinnamon tree in Ceylon, and its several sorts'.
Translated from Latin by Dr [Johann Jakob] Scheuzer [Scheuchzer]. Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1727.
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- CLP/10ii/5
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- 1720s
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- 31 pages
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- Manuscript
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Albertus Seba, Paper, 'An account of the cinnamon tree in Ceylon and its several sorts' by Albertus Seba, 1720s, CLP/10ii/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10ii_5/paper-an-account-of-the-cinnamon-tree-in-ceylon-and-its-several-sorts-by-albertus-seba, accessed on 21 March 2025
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Date: 31st December 1730
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0012
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