Paper, 'Inquiry into the nature of the motion of the Mimosa Pudica or sensitive plant' by John Lindsay
Reference number: L&P/9/199
Date: 1790
Description
Clean copy on a paper sent in 1788 by the author from Jamaica on the plant.
Contains two plates, which were removed from the earlier version of the paper.
Subject: Botany
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.
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- Reference number
- L&P/9/199
- Earliest possible date
- 1790
- Physical description
- Ink on paper and two plates
- Page extent
- 67 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Inquiry into the nature of the motion of the Mimosa Pudica or sensitive plant' by John Lindsay, 1790, L&P/9/199, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_199/paper-inquiry-into-the-nature-of-the-motion-of-the-mimosa-pudica-or-sensitive-plant-by-john-lindsay, accessed on 20 June 2025
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