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Concerns ways of hastening the growth of plants with observations of growing oranges and limes in Barbados
Note on reverse reads: 'scarce worth publishing'

Read to the Royal Society on 27 May 1714

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EL/W3/127
Earliest possible date
20 May 1714
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Walduck

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Thomas Walduck, Extract of a letter, from Thomas Walduck to James Petiver, 20 May 1714, EL/W3/127, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_127/extract-of-a-letter-from-thomas-walduck-to-james-petiver, accessed on 07 November 2025

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    The archival collection known as 'Early Letters' is composed of original manuscript letters sent to, or collected by, the Royal Society from English and foreign correspondents.

    Dates: 1613 - 1740

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