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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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0 letters from John Wilkins; 3 letters from Walter Pope

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Details of sites and other items of interest visited in Italy: ruins of Temple of Jupiter Anxur at Terracina; the effects of a grotto near Naples

05 April 1664 Sender: Walter Pope , Walter Pope Reference number: EL/P1/43

Observations of a storm with very large hailstones when travelling between Venice and Padova Read to the Royal Society on 24 August 1664

01 August 1664 Sender: Walter Pope , Walter Pope Reference number: EL/P1/44

Sent an account of quicksilver mines in Idria (see EL/P1/46); that he will be travelling to Paris

13 January 1664 Sender: Walter Pope , Walter Pope Reference number: EL/P1/45