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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as'A letter from Mr. J. Moult to Dr. Percival, of Manchester, F. R. S. containing a new manner of preparing salep'

Read 12 January 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/62
Earliest possible date
19 November 1768
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of a new method of preparing salep' from J Moult to Thomas Percival, 19 November 1768, L&P/5/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_62/letter-of-a-new-method-of-preparing-salep-from-j-moult-to-thomas-percival, accessed on 20 June 2025

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