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Letter, 'List of fifty plants from Chelsea Garden for the year 1740' from Joseph Miller to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/1/235

Date: 1743

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1740. pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart, Med. Reg. & Soc. Reg. Præf. By Joseph Miller, Apothecary, Hort, Chel. Præf. & Prælec. Botan'.

Read 15 December 1743

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L&P/1/235
Earliest possible date
1743
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'List of fifty plants from Chelsea Garden for the year 1740' from Joseph Miller to the Royal Society, 1743, L&P/1/235, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_235/letter-list-of-fifty-plants-from-chelsea-garden-for-the-year-1740-from-joseph-miller-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 May 2025

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