Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to George Caspar Kirchmeyer, dated at London

Reference number: EL/O2/166

Date: 09 February 1677

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Thanks for Kirchmeyer's essays on noctiluca and on flying dragons which were read to the Society; wishes to have a sample of noctiluca; that Balduin had sent a shining stone and had been elected to the Fellowship as a consequence

Reference number: EL/O2/166
Earliest possible date: 09 February 1677
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to George Caspar Kirchmeyer, dated at London, 09 February 1677, EL/O2/166, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_166/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-george-caspar-kirchmeyer-dated-at-london, accessed on 22 April 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
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