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Paper, 'An account of the Nardus Indica or spikenard' by Gilbert Blane

Reference number: L&P/9/163

Date: 1790

Description

Contains one plate.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the nardus indica, or spikenard.'

Read 18 March 1790

Reference number
L&P/9/163
Earliest possible date
1790
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
12 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Gilbert Blane

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Gilbert Blane, Paper, 'An account of the Nardus Indica or spikenard' by Gilbert Blane, 1790, L&P/9/163, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_163/paper-an-account-of-the-nardus-indica-or-spikenard-by-gilbert-blane, accessed on 23 June 2025

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