Paper, 'The description of virtues and use of a certain bark called in French du chacuil and in Latin cortex elatherii done into English from the memoires of the Royal Academy of Sciences: with some observations relating to its history and a comparison between it and the cortex thuris' by Dr Douglass [James Douglas] Douglass describes the virtues, use, and history of a bark called Cortex Elatherii [possibly from the barnadesia genus]. Translated from French. Subject: Botany Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1722 8 February 1722