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Letter, from Ferdinand Marsigli to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: EL/M2/2

Date: 24 December 1725

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Sends his paper on the natural history of the sea with observations of the sea in Provence and Languedoc; also presents a small book to the Society
Read to the Royal Society on 23 June 1726

Reference number
EL/M2/2
Earliest possible date
24 December 1725
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Luigi Ferdinand Marsigli

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Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli

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Luigi Ferdinand Marsigli, Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Letter, from Ferdinand Marsigli to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 24 December 1725, EL/M2/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m2_2/letter-from-ferdinand-marsigli-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 09 November 2025

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