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Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York

Reference number: EL/L5/50

Date: 12 December 1672

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Signed autograph
Raises a number queries about veins in plants after remarks made by Nehemiah Grew; copies response from Mr Wray about the hot taste of the mushroom from Marton in Craven (western Ribblesdale, Yorkshire)
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 9, p 364

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EL/L5/50
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12 December 1672
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4 pages
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Martin Lister

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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 12 December 1672, EL/L5/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_50/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 02 December 2024

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