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Letter, 'On roots used by the Indians near Hudsons Bay to dye porcupine quilla' from Johann Reinhold Forster to William Watson

Reference number: L&P/5/282

Date: 10 January 1772

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. giving some account of the roots used by the Indians, in the neighbourhood of Hudson's-Bay, to dye porcupine quills'

Read 27 February 1772

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L&P/5/282
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10 January 1772
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Johann Reinhold Forster

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Johann Reinhold Forster, Letter, 'On roots used by the Indians near Hudsons Bay to dye porcupine quilla' from Johann Reinhold Forster to William Watson, 10 January 1772, L&P/5/282, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_282/letter-on-roots-used-by-the-indians-near-hudsons-bay-to-dye-porcupine-quilla-from-johann-reinhold-forster-to-william-watson, accessed on 03 December 2024

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