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Extract of a letter, from Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane, dated at North Bierley

Reference number: EL/R1/54

Date: 05 September 1733

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Concerning the rapacious appetite of a species of insect ('squilla aquae dulcis') on carp and tench
Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1733

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EL/R1/54
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05 September 1733
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Richard Richardson

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Richard Richardson, Extract of a letter, from Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane, dated at North Bierley, 05 September 1733, EL/R1/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_r1_54/extract-of-a-letter-from-richard-richardson-to-hans-sloane-dated-at-north-bierley, accessed on 20 January 2025

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