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Letter, 'On the effects of elder in preserving growing plants from insects' from Christopher Gullett to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/299

Date: 01 August 1771

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Christopher Gullet to Matthew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. on the effects of elder, in preserving growing plants from insects and flies'

Read 14 May 1772

Reference number
L&P/5/299
Earliest possible date
01 August 1771
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the effects of elder in preserving growing plants from insects' from Christopher Gullett to Matthew Maty, 01 August 1771, L&P/5/299, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_299/letter-on-the-effects-of-elder-in-preserving-growing-plants-from-insects-from-christopher-gullett-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 24 January 2025

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