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Extract, an account of fossil wood from the Duchy of Spoleto by Mr Henshaw

Reference number: CLP/9i/13

Date: 1663

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Translation of Francesco Stelluti's Trattato del Legno Fossile Minerale Nuovamente Scoperto [Treatise of the newly discovered fossilised mineralized wood], (Roma, 1637) by Thomas Henshaw.

Read to the Royal Society on 10 February 1663

Subject: Botany / Palaeoxylology

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CLP/9i/13
Earliest possible date
1663
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Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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Extract, an account of fossil wood from the Duchy of Spoleto by Mr Henshaw, 1663, CLP/9i/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_13/extract-an-account-of-fossil-wood-from-the-duchy-of-spoleto-by-mr-henshaw, accessed on 15 January 2025

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