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Subject: Botany

Read 6 April 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/85
Earliest possible date
24 January 1769
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Donald Monro

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Donald Monro, Letter, 'Of the medicinal virtue of the bark of the wild cabbage tree of Jamaica' from Donald Monro to Matthew Maty, 24 January 1769, L&P/5/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_85/letter-of-the-medicinal-virtue-of-the-bark-of-the-wild-cabbage-tree-of-jamaica-from-donald-monro-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 09 December 2024

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