Five letters to Sir Joseph Banks Baronet President of the Royal Society, on the subject of cochineal insects, discovered at Madras, by James Anderson M.D. With a copper plate engraving annexed, of the different insects, mentioned in the Letters, from the Drawings of Baron Reichel. Also an engraving of the Opuntia major spinulis obtusus mollibus, & innocentibus, and the Plan of a Nopalry in the Bishoprick of Guaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico, Extracted from the Second Volume of Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica, for the use of Country Gentlemen who may be disposed to make Plantations, and are not in possession of that Work.

People / Organizations

• James Anderson (Author)

Imprint

Madras: printed by Charles Ford. At the Honorable Company's Press, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]

Publication year

1787-1787

ESTC No.

T62875

Grub Street ID

288253

Description

[2],13,[1]p.,plates ; 2⁰

Note

A further nine letters were published in 1787-1788.