Letter, from Robert Southwell to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Lisbon
Reference number: EL/S1/21
Date: 16 March 1669
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Sends two boxes of curiosities from Angola, Brazil and Portugal - hopes the seeds will arrive for the Spring; concerning Gabriel Grisley's work on plants; sends a book by Lobo on the history of Ethiopia; details of a pallas tree in Goa from a Franciscan friar; sends some 'Bee flowers' and melon seeds
Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1669
- Reference number
- EL/S1/21
- Earliest possible date
- 16 March 1669
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- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Southwell, Sir; Robert Southwell, Letter, from Robert Southwell to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Lisbon, 16 March 1669, EL/S1/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s1_21/letter-from-robert-southwell-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-lisbon, accessed on 11 March 2026
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Henry Oldenburg
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