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Paper, 'Description of a new fungus' by John Martyn

Reference number: L&P/1/345

Date: 21 January 1745

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Contains one coloured plate.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a new species of fungus, by John Martyn, F. R. S. Prof. Bot. Cantab. communicated in a letter to the President'

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Reference number
L&P/1/345
Earliest possible date
21 January 1745
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
7 pages
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Manuscript

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John Martyn

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John Martyn, Paper, 'Description of a new fungus' by John Martyn, 21 January 1745, L&P/1/345, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_345/paper-description-of-a-new-fungus-by-john-martyn, accessed on 15 January 2025

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