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Paper, 'Sitodium incisum and S. nacrocarpon [Sitodium incision and macrocarpon, and the use of Fruits to be produced]' by Carl Peter Thunberg

Reference number: L&P/7/107

Date: 1779

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23 pages in Latin and 21 pages in English.

Subject: Agriculture

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Sitodium incisum et macrocarpon, ususque fructuum qui exinde nascuntur'

Read 13 May 1779

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L&P/7/107
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1779
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44 pages
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Carl Peter Thunberg

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Carl Peter Thunberg, Paper, 'Sitodium incisum and S. nacrocarpon [Sitodium incision and macrocarpon, and the use of Fruits to be produced]' by Carl Peter Thunberg, 1779, L&P/7/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_107/paper-sitodium-incisum-and-s-nacrocarpon-sitodium-incision-and-macrocarpon-and-the-use-of-fruits-to-be-produced-by-carl-peter-thunberg, accessed on 11 November 2025

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