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Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society]

Reference number: EL/D1/81

Date: 10 October 1724

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Concerns sending a cane made from the jaw-bone of a sperm whale, and a tooth from the same animal, to the Royal Society from New England
Read to the Royal Society on 6 May 1725

Reference number
EL/D1/81
Earliest possible date
10 October 1724
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript
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Paul Dudley

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Paul Dudley, Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society], 10 October 1724, EL/D1/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_d1_81/letter-from-paul-dudley-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 20 March 2025

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