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Subject: Botany

Read 10 March 1763

Reference number
L&P/4/147
Earliest possible date
21 February 1763
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Send specimens of newspaper from a plant called Bayssus filamentis plumosis volantibus' from Alexander Dick to James Duncan, 21 February 1763, L&P/4/147, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_147/letter-send-specimens-of-newspaper-from-a-plant-called-bayssus-filamentis-plumosis-volantibus-from-alexander-dick-to-james-duncan, accessed on 08 February 2025

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