Letter, 'Effect of apple farina (pollen) on other apple blooms' from Benjamin Cooke to Peter Collinson
Reference number: L&P/1/424
Date: 07 October 1745

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Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Mr. Benj. Cook, F. R. S. to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning the effect which the farina of the blossoms of different sorts of apple-trees had on the fruit of a neighbouring tree'
Read 14 November 1745
- Reference number
- L&P/1/424
- Earliest possible date
- 07 October 1745
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- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Benjamin Cooke, Letter, 'Effect of apple farina (pollen) on other apple blooms' from Benjamin Cooke to Peter Collinson, 07 October 1745, L&P/1/424, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_424/letter-effect-of-apple-farina-pollen-on-other-apple-blooms-from-benjamin-cooke-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 11 February 2025
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Date: 31st December 1744
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1744.0100
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Decade 1 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1746 Reference number: L&P/1
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