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Paper, 'Of a blue substance found in a peat-moss, 12 miles from Aberdeen' by Sylvester Douglas

Reference number: L&P/5/56

Date: 12 December 1765

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations upon a blue substance, found in a peat-moss in Scotland: By Sylvester Douglas, Esquire'

Read 3 February 1766 (paper was mislaid)

Reference number
L&P/5/56
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12 December 1765
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
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Manuscript

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Sylvester Douglas

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Sylvester Douglas, Paper, 'Of a blue substance found in a peat-moss, 12 miles from Aberdeen' by Sylvester Douglas, 12 December 1765, L&P/5/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_56/paper-of-a-blue-substance-found-in-a-peat-moss-12-miles-from-aberdeen-by-sylvester-douglas, accessed on 22 April 2025

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