Letter, 'Concerning the vegetating of melon seeds 42 years old' from Martin Triewald to Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: L&P/1/94
Date: 16 December 1741
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Subject: Biology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Martin Triewald, F. R. S. Captain of mechanics, and military architect to the King of Sweden, to C. Mortimer, M. D. Sec. R. S. Concerning the vegetation of melon-seeds forty-two Years old'.
Read 20 May 1742.
- Reference number
- L&P/1/94
- Earliest possible date
- 16 December 1741
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Martin Triewald, Letter, 'Concerning the vegetating of melon seeds 42 years old' from Martin Triewald to Cromwell Mortimer, 16 December 1741, L&P/1/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_94/letter-concerning-the-vegetating-of-melon-seeds-42-years-old-from-martin-triewald-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 19 January 2025
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