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Paper, 'An account of Enumeratio methodica stirprum Helvetiae indigenarum by Albert Haller' by William Watson

Reference number: L&P/1/159

Date: 1742

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English translation of the original paper.

Subject: Geography/Meteorology/Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a treatise, (intituled, D. Alberti Halleri Archiatri Regii & Elect. Medicin. Anatomiœ, Botan. Prœlect. &c. Ennumeratio methodica stirpium helvetiæ indigenarum. Qua ominum brevis descriptio & synonymia, compendium virium medicarum, dubiarum declaratio, novarum & rariorum uberior historia & icones continentur. Gottingiæ, 1742. in Folio) extracted and translated from the Latin by William Watson, F. R. S.'

Read 3 February 1743.

Reference number
L&P/1/159
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1742
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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William Watson

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William Watson, Paper, 'An account of Enumeratio methodica stirprum Helvetiae indigenarum by Albert Haller' by William Watson, 1742, L&P/1/159, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_159/paper-an-account-of-enumeratio-methodica-stirprum-helvetiae-indigenarum-by-albert-haller-by-william-watson, accessed on 17 February 2025

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