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Letter, from Henry Nicholson [to the Royal Society], dated at Dublin

Reference number: EL/N1/72

Date: 10 May 1676

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Details of a thunderstorm in the Caribbean and its effects on a magnetical sea card; reasons why there is a change of temperature in America with observations of the weather; details of the construction of Nicholson's hygroscope with deal boards; ideas about respiration; discussing reproduction; discussing a large flying beetle and that figures of it have been sent; concerning the testicles of a musk-quash
Read to the Royal Society on 1 June 1676

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EL/N1/72
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10 May 1676
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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Henry Nicholson

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Henry Nicholson, Letter, from Henry Nicholson [to the Royal Society], dated at Dublin, 10 May 1676, EL/N1/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_72/letter-from-henry-nicholson-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-dublin, accessed on 09 December 2024

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