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Paper, 'Account of a bark tree in St Lucia' by George Davidson

Reference number: L&P/8/91

Date: 1784

Description

Contains two plates.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a new species of the bark-tree, found in the island of St. Lucia.'

Read 24 June 1784

Reference number
L&P/8/91
Earliest possible date
1784
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Account of a bark tree in St Lucia' by George Davidson, 1784, L&P/8/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_91/paper-account-of-a-bark-tree-in-st-lucia-by-george-davidson, accessed on 12 July 2025

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