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RefNoCLP/10i/35
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TitleLetter, 'A description and figure of the true amomum or tugus' Reverend George Camelli [Georg Joseph Kamel] to John Ray and James Petiver
Date[1698]
DescriptionLetter sent from Georg Joseph Kamel in the Philippine Isles [Philippines] regarding amomum, a genus of plants including various species of cardamom, and tugus [tugas, known as vitex parviflora]. No figure is included with the manuscript.

Subject: Botany

Published with figure in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description and figure of the true amomum, or tugus'.

Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1698.
LanguageLatin
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0002
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 21 (1699), p 2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8403Ray; John (1627 - 1705)1627 - 1705
NA6857Petiver; James (c1663 - 1718); botanist and entomologistc1663 - 1718
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