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Letter, 'Of some plants indigenous to several parts of England' from Richard Hill Waring to Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/5/253

Date: 04 January 1771

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Richard Waring Esq; F. R. S. to the Hon. Daines Barrington; on some plants found in several parts of England'

Read 14 November 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/253
Earliest possible date
04 January 1771
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
21 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Richard Hill Waring

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Richard Hill Waring, Letter, 'Of some plants indigenous to several parts of England' from Richard Hill Waring to Daines Barrington, 04 January 1771, L&P/5/253, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_253/letter-of-some-plants-indigenous-to-several-parts-of-england-from-richard-hill-waring-to-daines-barrington, accessed on 08 July 2025

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