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Letter, 'An account of the Tabasheer' from Patrick Russell to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/9/162

Date: 26 November 1788

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the Tabasheer'

Read 11 March 1790

Reference number
L&P/9/162
Earliest possible date
26 November 1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Patrick Russell

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Patrick Russell, Letter, 'An account of the Tabasheer' from Patrick Russell to Joseph Banks, 26 November 1788, L&P/9/162, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_162/letter-an-account-of-the-tabasheer-from-patrick-russell-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 09 March 2026

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