Letter, 'Account of boreing for rock salt, at Crowley in Cheshire' from Thomas Brotherton to Hans Sloane
Reference number: CLP/9i/55
Date: 14 September 1699
Description
Letter regarding Brotherton's observations of a resident of Crowley boring for rock salt in his back garden. Brotherton describes the composition of the earth in the area.
Subject: Geology
Read to the Royal Society on 29 November 1699
- Reference number
- CLP/9i/55
- Earliest possible date
- 14 September 1699
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, 'Account of boreing for rock salt, at Crowley in Cheshire' from Thomas Brotherton to Hans Sloane, 14 September 1699, CLP/9i/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_55/letter-account-of-boreing-for-rock-salt-at-crowley-in-cheshire-from-thomas-brotherton-to-hans-sloane, accessed on 13 October 2024
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