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Letter, from Stephen Gray to Henry Hunt, dated at Canterbury

Reference number: EL/G1/50

Date: 22 May 1696

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Sends a parcel of mineral sand and gives his observations of it
Read to the Royal Society on 3 June 1696

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EL/G1/50
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22 May 1696
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1 page
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Manuscript
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Stephen Gray

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Stephen Gray, Letter, from Stephen Gray to Henry Hunt, dated at Canterbury, 22 May 1696, EL/G1/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_50/letter-from-stephen-gray-to-henry-hunt-dated-at-canterbury, accessed on 26 March 2025

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