Paper, 'Inquiry into the nature of the motions of the Mimosa Pudica or sensitive plant' by John Lindsay
Reference number: L&P/9/111
Date: 15 April 1788
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Subject: Botany
Sent from Jamaica, illustrations originally contained in this paper were separated and included in a later version of the paper sent by the author in 1790.
The author is likely John Lindsay, a surgeon in Westmoreland, Jamaica who had papers on Jamaican flora published in the 'Transactions of the Linnean Society' (via correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks PRS) and the 'Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh' in the 1790s.
Read date not given as the newer version is still to be read in 1790.
- Reference number
- L&P/9/111
- Earliest possible date
- 15 April 1788
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 35 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Inquiry into the nature of the motions of the Mimosa Pudica or sensitive plant' by John Lindsay, 15 April 1788, L&P/9/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_111/paper-inquiry-into-the-nature-of-the-motions-of-the-mimosa-pudica-or-sensitive-plant-by-john-lindsay, accessed on 09 July 2025
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