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Molyneux describes finding a petrified honeycomb in a type of freestone between two large rocks in a stone quarry near Dungannon in Northern Ireland.

Subject: Palaeontology

Read to the Royal Society on 22 October 1707.

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CLP/9i/63
Earliest possible date
1707
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Molyneux

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Thomas Molyneux, Paper, 'An account of a petrified honey-comb with some observations upon it' by Dr [Thomas?] Molyneux, 1707, CLP/9i/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_63/paper-an-account-of-a-petrified-honey-comb-with-some-observations-upon-it-by-dr-thomas-molyneux, accessed on 15 January 2026

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