Letter, 'Lime-water on vegetation' from Charles Alstone to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/2/231

Date: 17 March 1749

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of two letters from Dr. Alston, Bot. Prof. at Edinburgh to Dr. Mortimer, Secr. R. S. the first dated 17 March, 1749; the second, August 9, 1750'

Read 24 October 1751

Reference number: L&P/2/231
Earliest possible date: 17 March 1749
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Letter, 'Lime-water on vegetation' from Charles Alstone to Cromwell Mortimer, 17 March 1749, L&P/2/231, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_231/letter-lime-water-on-vegetation-from-charles-alstone-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 15 October 2024

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XXXIX. Extract of two letters from Dr. Alston, Bot. Prof. at Edinburgh to Dr. Mortimer, Secr. R. S. the first dated 17 March, 1749; the second, August 9, 1750 External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1752

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1751.0040

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 2 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1749-1755 Reference number: L&P/2

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