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  <dc:title>Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at Paris</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerning the travels of Robert Southwell who asks for Oldenburg's advice - believes that Southwell might be of use to the Royal Society particularly if he were to visit Italy; sends a sample of oil and wishes Boyle to examine it for its possible medicinal effects; he also sends seeds of a sensitive plant and the grains of 'Bama muscata' from the West Indies [Caribbean] with details of its preparation; postscript (in Latin) has the method for making vitriolated oil</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 May 1659</dc:date>
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