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Paper, 'Of a coralline' by Hans Sloane

Reference number: L&P/1/447

Date: 1745

Description

Contains plate with engraved figure.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of a curious Sea-Plant; frutex marinus flabelliformis cortice verrucoso obductus. Doddii. Raii hist. Tom. III. p. 7. et synops. edit. 3. p. 32. Coralloides granulosa alba. J. B. Tom. III. pag. 809. Erica marina alba frutescens. Mus. Pet. 50. Keratophyton flabelliforme, cortice verrucoso obductum. Raii syn. edit. 3. p. 32'

Read 6 February 1745

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L&P/1/447
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1745
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Hans Sloane

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Hans Sloane, Paper, 'Of a coralline' by Hans Sloane, 1745, L&P/1/447, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_447/paper-of-a-coralline-by-hans-sloane, accessed on 12 November 2025

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