Letter, from John Winthrop to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Boston
Reference number: EL/W3/23
Date: 26 August 1670
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States that he has sent a stellar fish, cranberries, skins of rattle snakes (with account about them), Virginia snakeweed, Indian [sic] corn, dwarf oaks, butternut tree (of the walnut family), horn fish, all from New England; concerning a natural history of New England
Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1670
- Reference number
- EL/W3/23
- Earliest possible date
- 26 August 1670
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- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Winthrop, John Winthrop, Letter, from John Winthrop to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Boston, 26 August 1670, EL/W3/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_23/letter-from-john-winthrop-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-boston, accessed on 19 June 2025
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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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John Winthrop
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