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

Reference number: EL/S2/9

Date: 20 January 1697

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Account of the shell 'nautilus' mentioned in EL/S2/8 with a figure of it attached
Read to the Royal Society on 3 March 1697

Reference number: EL/S2/9
Earliest possible date: 20 January 1697
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: 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, 20 January 1697, EL/S2/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_9/letter-from-robert-sibbald-to-martin-lister-dated-at-edinburgh, 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
Early Letters S2
1686-1738 Reference number: EL/S2

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Martin Lister
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Dates: 1613 - 1740

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