Letter, from Robert Plot to Robert Southwell, dated at London
Reference number: EL/P1/95
Date: 24 October 1694
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That Plot wishes to use the repository or registers of the Society to compile natural histories of London and Middlesex in the same way that the histories of Oxford and Staffordshire were carried out
Read to the Royal Society on 24 October 1694
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- EL/P1/95
- Earliest possible date
- 24 October 1694
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- 1 page
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- Manuscript
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Robert Plot, Robert Plot, Letter, from Robert Plot to Robert Southwell, dated at London, 24 October 1694, EL/P1/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_95/letter-from-robert-plot-to-robert-southwell-dated-at-london, accessed on 16 May 2026
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