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Letter, 'Of a green vegetable slime after floods' from Georg Matthias Bose to George Parker

Reference number: L&P/2/459

Date: 1753

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Professor Bose, of Wittemberg, to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, Pr. R. S. with observations thereupon, by Mr. Wm. Watson, F. R. S'

Read 6 December 1753

Reference number
L&P/2/459
Earliest possible date
1753
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Georg Matthias Bose

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Georg Matthias Bose, Letter, 'Of a green vegetable slime after floods' from Georg Matthias Bose to George Parker, 1753, L&P/2/459, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_459/letter-of-a-green-vegetable-slime-after-floods-from-georg-matthias-bose-to-george-parker, accessed on 25 June 2025

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