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Paper, 'List of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden for the year 1768' by William Hudson

Reference number: L&P/5/137

Date: 1769

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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 1768, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. et Soc. Reg. nuper Proefes. By William Hudson Societatis Regiae et clariss. Societatis Pharmaceut. Lond. Soc. Hort. Chelsean. Proefectus et Proelector Botanicus'

Read 14 December 1769

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L&P/5/137
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1769
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hudson

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William Hudson, Paper, 'List of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden for the year 1768' by William Hudson, 1769, L&P/5/137, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_137/paper-list-of-50-plants-from-chelsea-garden-for-the-year-1768-by-william-hudson, accessed on 09 July 2025

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