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Letter, 'Of the sensitive quality of the tree Averrhoa carambola' from Robert Bruce to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/147

Date: 23 November 1783

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the sensitive quality of the tree Averrhoa Carambola. In a letter from Robert Bruce, M.D. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S'

Read 14 April 1785

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L&P/8/147
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23 November 1783
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Ink on paper
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Bruce

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Robert Bruce, Letter, 'Of the sensitive quality of the tree Averrhoa carambola' from Robert Bruce to Joseph Banks, 23 November 1783, L&P/8/147, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_147/letter-of-the-sensitive-quality-of-the-tree-averrhoa-carambola-from-robert-bruce-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 14 September 2024

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