Paper, 'On the papyri found at the ruins of Herculaneum' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy
Reference number: PT/15/15
Date: 1821
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Subject: Anthropology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations and experiments on the Papyri found in the ruins of Herculaneum'.
Read 15 March 1821.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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- PT/15/15
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- 1821
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- 16 pages
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1821
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