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Lidén Number 30
Respondent: Jonas Petri Halenius (1727-1810)
Title: Plantae rariores Camschatcenses, ...
Date of Defense: 22 December 1750
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-30, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Plantae rariores camschatcenses.
Soulsby Title: Pl. rar. Camsch.
Drake Title: Plantae rariores Camschatcenses.
Note: P. 26 misnumbered 62 in one of three copies.
Abstract: An account of 26 species of Siberian plants new to Linnaeus, who received them from Johan Georg Gmelin (1709-1755). Gmelin spent much of the period from 1733 to 1743 exploring the natural history of Siberia, on orders from Empress Anne of Russia.