| Reference number | L&P/9/199 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Inquiry into the nature of the motion of the Mimosa Pudica or sensitive plant' by John Lindsay |
| Date | 1790 |
| Description | Clean copy on a paper sent in 1788 by the author from Jamaica on the plant.
Contains two plates, which were removed from the earlier version of the paper.
Subject: Botany
The author is likely John Lindsay, a surgeon in Westmoreland, Jamaica who had papers on Jamaican flora published in the 'Transactions of the Linnean Society' (via correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks PRS) and the 'Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh', in the 1790s.
Read date not given. |
| Extent | 67p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper and two plates |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | L&P/9/199/1 |
| L&P/9/199/2 |
| L&P/9/199/3 |
| L&P/9/111 |