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Subject:Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on a particular manner of increase in the animalcula of vegetable infusions, with the discovery of an indissoluble salt arising from hempseed put into water till it becomes putrid'

Read 25 May 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/96
Earliest possible date
1769
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Ellis

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John Ellis, Paper, 'On animalcula in vegetable infusions' by John Ellis, 1769, L&P/5/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_96/paper-on-animalcula-in-vegetable-infusions-by-john-ellis, accessed on 11 February 2025

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