Extract of a letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy [Claude Joseph] to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/G2/34

Date: 01 January 1737

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Stating that oil was not a good antidote to viper's bite, but that phosphorus was better; stating that one person of the Northern Expedition for the measurement of the earth found it to be flat, but he does not know what information the expedition to Peru has found
Original letter, which now no longer exists, was in French and dated 20 September 1737
Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1737

Reference number: EL/G2/34
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1737
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Claude Joseph Geoffroy

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Claude Joseph Geoffroy, Extract of a letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy [Claude Joseph] to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris, 01 January 1737, EL/G2/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g2_34/extract-of-a-letter-from-monsieur-geoffroy-claude-joseph-to-hans-sloane-dated-at-paris, accessed on 12 January 2026

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters G2
1722-1740 Reference number: EL/G2

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Hans Sloane
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