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Letter, 'Of the effects of prickly pear and of indigo in colouring the juices of living animals' from Alexander Garden to Henry Baker

Reference number: L&P/3/257

Date: 23 June 1757

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The effects of the opuntia, or prickly pear, and of the indigo plant, in colouring the juices of living animals'

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Reference number
L&P/3/257
Earliest possible date
23 June 1757
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Garden

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Alexander Garden, Letter, 'Of the effects of prickly pear and of indigo in colouring the juices of living animals' from Alexander Garden to Henry Baker, 23 June 1757, L&P/3/257, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_257/letter-of-the-effects-of-prickly-pear-and-of-indigo-in-colouring-the-juices-of-living-animals-from-alexander-garden-to-henry-baker, accessed on 13 September 2024

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