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Letter, 'Of trees discovered underground in Mounts Bay' from William Borlase to Charles Lyttelton

Reference number: L&P/3/216

Date: 24 January 1757

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some trees discovered under-ground on the shore at Mount’s-Bay in Cornwall : In a letter from the Rev. Mr. William Borlase, F. R. S. to the Rev. Dr. Lyttelton, Dean of Exeter'

Read 10 February 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/216
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24 January 1757
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Borlase

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William Borlase, Letter, 'Of trees discovered underground in Mounts Bay' from William Borlase to Charles Lyttelton, 24 January 1757, L&P/3/216, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_216/letter-of-trees-discovered-underground-in-mounts-bay-from-william-borlase-to-charles-lyttelton, accessed on 15 March 2025

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