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Read to the Royal Socieyt on 18 May 1738

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RBO/21/27
Earliest possible date
1738
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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'A Mechanical Inquiry concerning the Cause and Manner, from and by which Lemons and other Fruits are sometimes found pregnant: that is, with young ones within them' by Charles Perry, 1738, RBO/21/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_27/a-mechanical-inquiry-concerning-the-cause-and-manner-from-and-by-which-lemons-and-other-fruits-are-sometimes-found-pregnant-that-is-with-young-ones-within-them-by-charles-perry, accessed on 19 August 2026

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