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Paper, 'Observations and experiments on a wax-life substance resembling the pe-la of the Chinese, collected at Madras [Chennai] by Dr Anderson and called by him white lac' by George Pearson

Reference number: L&P/10/89

Date: 1794

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and experiments on a wax-like substance, resembling the Pé-la of the Chinese, collected at Madras [Chennai] by Dr. Anderson, and called by him white lac'

Read 29 May 1794

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L&P/10/89
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1794
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George Pearson, Paper, 'Observations and experiments on a wax-life substance resembling the pe-la of the Chinese, collected at Madras [Chennai] by Dr Anderson and called by him white lac' by George Pearson, 1794, L&P/10/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_89/paper-observations-and-experiments-on-a-wax-life-substance-resembling-the-pe-la-of-the-chinese-collected-at-madras-chennai-by-dr-anderson-and-called-by-him-white-lac-by-george-pearson, accessed on 11 February 2026

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