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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Affidavits concerning the generation and production of cochineal' by Melchior de Ruusscher</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Received by William Rutty from de Ruusscher via Mr East. De Ruuscher writes on the production of cochineal.

Subject: Zoology

For Rutty's account of cochineal from Dutch accounts from 1729 see 'The natural history of cochineal; being an account of a book entituled, Histoire naturelle de la cochinelle justifiée par des documens authentiques Amsterdam, 1729', Philosophical Transactions volume 36.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1734-1740]</dc:date>
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