Letter, from Robert Sibbald to Richard Waller, dated at Edinburgh

Reference number: EL/S2/4

Date: 25 September 1693

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Believing that his previous letter did not arrive, Sibbald sends two more copies of his paper on whales; that observations of a seal and porpoise have been made; that an account of the Isle of Shetland might be published
Read to the Royal Society on 22 November 1693

Reference number: EL/S2/4
Earliest possible date: 25 September 1693
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Sir; Robert Sibbald

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Sir; Robert Sibbald, Letter, from Robert Sibbald to Richard Waller, dated at Edinburgh, 25 September 1693, EL/S2/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_4/letter-from-robert-sibbald-to-richard-waller-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 21 January 2025

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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
Early Letters S2
1686-1738 Reference number: EL/S2

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Richard Waller
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Dates: 1613-1740

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