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Letter commenting on an article by Professor Wolfius [Christian Wolff] about multiplying grain, providing details of a plant with 17 stalks that grew from a single grain first steeped in liquid.

Subject: Botany

Read to the Royal Society on 13 March 1729.

Reference number
CLP/10iii/45
Earliest possible date
04 March 1729
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Eames

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John Eames, Letter, regarding multiplying grain from J [John] Eames to [John] Machin, 04 March 1729, CLP/10iii/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_45/letter-regarding-multiplying-grain-from-j-john-eames-to-john-machin, accessed on 15 October 2024

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