Letter, from Benjamin Bullivant to James Petiver, dated at Boston
Reference number: EL/B2/46
Date: 25 January 1698
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Autograph letter concerning observations about animal life found in Boston, New England eg. insects, tortoises, grasshoppers, frogs
Read to the Royal Society on 25 May 1698
Transcribed in LBO/11(2)/61
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', volume 20, number 240, page 167
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- EL/B2/46
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- 25 January 1698
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- 2 pages
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Benjamin Bullivant, Letter, from Benjamin Bullivant to James Petiver, dated at Boston, 25 January 1698, EL/B2/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b2_46/letter-from-benjamin-bullivant-to-james-petiver-dated-at-boston, accessed on 20 July 2026
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I. Part of a letter from Mr. Benjamin Bullivant, at Boston, in New England; to Mr. James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society, in London. concerning some natural observations he had made in those parts External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Benjamin Bullivant
Date: 1st May 1698
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0025
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