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Letter, from N Highmore to John Beale, dated at Sherborne

Reference number: EL/H1/106

Date: 17 September 1669

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Discussing salt springs - gives an account of a salt spring in Dorset
Read to the Royal Society on 3 February 1669

Reference number
EL/H1/106
Earliest possible date
17 September 1669
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2 pages
Format
Manuscript and typescript documents
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Nathaniel Highmore

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Nathaniel Highmore, Letter, from N Highmore to John Beale, dated at Sherborne, 17 September 1669, EL/H1/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_106/letter-from-n-highmore-to-john-beale-dated-at-sherborne, accessed on 14 December 2024

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