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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A copy of a letter from John Ellis, Esq; F. R. S. to Dr. Linnæus, F. R. S. &c. with the figure and characters of that elegant American evergreen tree, called by the gardiners the Loblolly-Bay, taken from blossoms blown near London, and shewing that it is not an hibiscus, as Mr. Miller calls it; nor an hypreicum, as Dr. Linnaeus supposes it; but an intire new genus, to which Mr. Ellis gives the name of Gordonia'

Read 20 December 1770

Reference number
L&P/5/203a
Earliest possible date
1770
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Ellis

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John Ellis, Letter, 'The figure and character of that elegant American evergreen called by the gardeners the Loblolly Bay' from John Elllis to Carl Linnaeus, 1770, L&P/5/203a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_203a/letter-the-figure-and-character-of-that-elegant-american-evergreen-called-by-the-gardeners-the-loblolly-bay-from-john-elllis-to-carl-linnaeus, accessed on 14 June 2026

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