'Description Virtues and Use of a certain Bark call'd in French Du Chaeril and in Latin Cortex Elatherii done into English from the Memoires of the Royal Academy of Sciences with some Observations relating to its history and a Comparison between it and the Cortex Thuris of Dioscorides by J Douglas'
Reference number: RBO/11/47
Date: 1721
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Discussing medicinal properties of the bark
A specimen was brought to the Royal Society
Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1721
- Reference number
- RBO/11/47
- Earliest possible date
- 1721
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'Description Virtues and Use of a certain Bark call'd in French Du Chaeril and in Latin Cortex Elatherii done into English from the Memoires of the Royal Academy of Sciences with some Observations relating to its history and a Comparison between it and the Cortex Thuris of Dioscorides by J Douglas', 1721, RBO/11/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_47/description-virtues-and-use-of-a-certain-bark-calld-in-french-du-chaeril-and-in-latin-cortex-elatherii-done-into-english-from-the-memoires-of-the-royal-academy-of-sciences-with-some-observations-relating-to-its-history-and-a-comparison-between-it-and-the-cortex-thuris-of-dioscorides-by-j-douglas, accessed on 23 January 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-1724
1720-1724 Reference number: RBO/11
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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