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Letter, 'Of growing pineapples' from William Bastard to Samuel Musgrave

Reference number: L&P/6/256

Date: 14 April 1776

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Subject: Agriculture

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the culture of pine-apples. An extract of a letter from William Bastard, Esq. of Kitley in Devonshire, to Samuel Musgrave, M.D. F.R.S. dated Kitley, March 15, 1777. Communicated to the Society by Dr. Musgrave'

Read 19 June 1777

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L&P/6/256
Earliest possible date
14 April 1776
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of growing pineapples' from William Bastard to Samuel Musgrave, 14 April 1776, L&P/6/256, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_256/letter-of-growing-pineapples-from-william-bastard-to-samuel-musgrave, accessed on 10 October 2024

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