Record

RefNoCLP/10i/30
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On the coffee shrub' by Hans Sloane
Date[1694]
DescriptionExplanation of a figure showing a dried branch of a coffee shrub that was published in Philosophical Transactions. Figure is not included with the manuscript.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part paper titled of 'An account of a prodigiously large feather of the bird cuntur, brought from Chili, and supposed to be a kind of vultur; and of the coffee-shrub'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1694.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1694.0016
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 18 (1694), p 63
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8406Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector1660 - 1753
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