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Letter, 'Of the washing of tree trunks' from Robert Marsham to Charles Moss

Reference number: L&P/6/249

Date: 21 May 1777

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the usefulness of washing and rubbing the stems of trees, to promote their annual increase. In an extract of a letter from Mr. Marsham to the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells'

Read 29 May 1777

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L&P/6/249
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21 May 1777
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Marsham

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Robert Marsham, Letter, 'Of the washing of tree trunks' from Robert Marsham to Charles Moss, 21 May 1777, L&P/6/249, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_249/letter-of-the-washing-of-tree-trunks-from-robert-marsham-to-charles-moss, accessed on 17 April 2026

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