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Letter, 'On the sexes of plants' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray

Reference number: L&P/4/287

Date: 29 December 1761

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of three letters of Sir F. H. Eyles Stiles, F. R. S. to Daniel Wray, Esq; F. R. S. concerning some new microscopes made at Naples, and their use in viewing the smallest objects'

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L&P/4/287
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29 December 1761
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles

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Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles, Letter, 'On the sexes of plants' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray, 29 December 1761, L&P/4/287, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_287/letter-on-the-sexes-of-plants-from-francis-haskins-eyles-stiles-to-daniel-wray, accessed on 24 May 2025

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