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'Account of the Peruvian or Jesuit's Bark by John Gray'

Reference number: RBO/20/1

Date: 1736

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Gray was at Cartagena in the Spanish West Indies [Caribbean]
Account extracted from some papers given to hm by William Arrot, a Scottish surgeon, who had gathered it at the place where it grows in Peru
Read to the Royal Society on 28 October 1736

Reference number
RBO/20/1
Earliest possible date
1736
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'Account of the Peruvian or Jesuit's Bark by John Gray', 1736, RBO/20/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_20_1/account-of-the-peruvian-or-jesuits-bark-by-john-gray, accessed on 17 July 2026

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