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Paper, 'List of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden, for 1754, nos. 1601 to 1650' by John Wilmer

Reference number: L&P/3/4

Date: 1755

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the worshipful Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1754, pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet, Med. Reg. & Soc. Reg. nuper Prœses, by John Wilmer, M. D. Societat. Pharmaceut. Lond. Socius, Hort. Chels. Prœfectus & Prœlector Botan'

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Reference number
L&P/3/4
Earliest possible date
1755
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'List of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden, for 1754, nos. 1601 to 1650' by John Wilmer, 1755, L&P/3/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_4/paper-list-of-50-plants-from-chelsea-garden-for-1754-nos-1601-to-1650-by-john-wilmer, accessed on 13 December 2024

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