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Subject: Argriculture

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some observations on the irritability of vegetables'

Read 14 February 1788

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L&P/9/78
Earliest possible date
1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
12 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Edward Smith

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James Edward Smith, Paper, 'Some obervations on the irritability of vegetables' by James Edward Smith, 1788, L&P/9/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_78/paper-some-obervations-on-the-irritability-of-vegetables-by-james-edward-smith, accessed on 17 January 2025

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