Letter, from Thomas Molyneux [to the Royal Society], dated at Leyden

Reference number: EL/M1/102

Date: 29 December 1684

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That Molyneux will send a catalogue of natural curiosities preserved in balsam from the Professor of Botany, Herman in Leyden; will also send details about Dr Swammerdam's collection; informing that a treatise by de la Hire on conic sections has gone to press; concerning the large 'os frontis' in Leyden believed to belong to a man 11 or 12 feet tall (gives dimensions of bone)
Read to the Royal Society on 7 January 1685

Reference number: EL/M1/102
Earliest possible date: 29 December 1684
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Thomas Molyneux, Letter, from Thomas Molyneux [to the Royal Society], dated at Leyden, 29 December 1684, EL/M1/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m1_102/letter-from-thomas-molyneux-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-leyden, accessed on 03 December 2024

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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 M1
1651-1713 Reference number: EL/M1

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