Letter, 'Concerning the germination of melon seeds 33 years old; and, of a skeleton of a man found with stag's horns near Bakewell' from Roger Gale to Peter Collinson
Reference number: L&P/1/346
Date: 1745
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Subject: Botany/Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of two letters from the late Roger Gale, Esquire, F. R. S. to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning the vegetation of Melon seeds 33 Years old; and of a fossil skeleton of a man'
Read 24 January 1745
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- L&P/1/346
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- 1745
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- 2 pages
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Roger Gale, Letter, 'Concerning the germination of melon seeds 33 years old; and, of a skeleton of a man found with stag's horns near Bakewell' from Roger Gale to Peter Collinson, 1745, L&P/1/346, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_346/letter-concerning-the-germination-of-melon-seeds-33-years-old-and-of-a-skeleton-of-a-man-found-with-stags-horns-near-bakewell-from-roger-gale-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 14 January 2025
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