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Extract of a letter, from C[harles] Boucher to Edmond Halley, dated at Jamaica

Reference number: EL/B2/33

Date: 01 January 1676

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Original dated 10 March 1676
Concerning Jamaica: the terrain; trees; insects; birds; astronomical observations

Read to the Royal Society on 8 June 1676

Reference number
EL/B2/33
Earliest possible date
01 January 1676
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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C Boucher

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C Boucher, Extract of a letter, from C[harles] Boucher to Edmond Halley, dated at Jamaica, 01 January 1676, EL/B2/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b2_33/extract-of-a-letter-from-charles-boucher-to-edmond-halley-dated-at-jamaica, accessed on 15 January 2026

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    Dates: 1613 - 1740

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