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Letter, 'Of various Chinese plants and seeds' from Pierre d'Incarville to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/2/359

Date: 15 November 1751

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7 pages in French and 8 pages in English.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Father d'Incarville, of the Society of Jesus, at Peking [Beijing] in China, to the late Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. R. S. Secr'

Read 7 June 1753

Reference number
L&P/2/359
Earliest possible date
15 November 1751
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of various Chinese plants and seeds' from Pierre d'Incarville to Cromwell Mortimer, 15 November 1751, L&P/2/359, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_359/letter-of-various-chinese-plants-and-seeds-from-pierre-dincarville-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 11 September 2026

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