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Letter, 'Of mushrooms' from Roger Pickering to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/1/224

Date: 03 October 1743

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Subject: Mycology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Reverend Mr. Roger Pickering, V. D. M. to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S. concerning the seeds of Mushrooms'

Read 10 November 1743

Reference number
L&P/1/224
Earliest possible date
03 October 1743
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Roger Pickering

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Roger Pickering, Letter, 'Of mushrooms' from Roger Pickering to Cromwell Mortimer, 03 October 1743, L&P/1/224, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_224/letter-of-mushrooms-from-roger-pickering-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 10 March 2026

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