Letter, from Hans Sloane to Lady Essex [Elizabeth Capell]
Reference number: EL/S2/19
Date: 23 March 1734

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Sloane thanks Lady Essex for sending the fruit which he says is called 'water caltrops' in English and grown in Germany and Italy; gives Latin names for the fruit and that he had received a variety of the fruit from China
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- EL/S2/19
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- 23 March 1734
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- 1 page
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Hans Sloane, Letter, from Hans Sloane to Lady Essex [Elizabeth Capell], 23 March 1734, EL/S2/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_19/letter-from-hans-sloane-to-lady-essex-elizabeth-capell, accessed on 11 February 2025
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