Letter, from Philip Miller to D Douglas
Reference number: EL/M2/71
Date: 20 February 1728

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Account of cultivating coconuts, first on a hot-bed of Tanner's bark, and secondly, on a hot-bed of horse-dung; coconuts were sent from Barbados
Read to the Royal Society on 22 February 1727
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- EL/M2/71
- Earliest possible date
- 20 February 1728
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Philip Miller, Letter, from Philip Miller to D Douglas, 20 February 1728, EL/M2/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m2_71/letter-from-philip-miller-to-d-douglas, accessed on 12 February 2025
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