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Letter, from Robert Sibbald to Martin Lister, dated at Edinburgh

Reference number: EL/S2/8

Date: 26 October 1696

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Account of several shells observed in Scotland
Read to the Royal Society on 25 November 1696

Reference number
EL/S2/8
Earliest possible date
26 October 1696
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
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Sir; Robert Sibbald

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Sir; Robert Sibbald, Letter, from Robert Sibbald to Martin Lister, dated at Edinburgh, 26 October 1696, EL/S2/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_8/letter-from-robert-sibbald-to-martin-lister-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 11 June 2026

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