Extract of a letter, from Joseph Walsh [to the Royal Society]
Reference number: EL/W3/14
Date: 01 January 1668
Description
Letter dated 9 April 1668
Sends petrified samples from Sowerstones Rock, Worcestershire, to the Royal Society and gives an account of the location
On reverse is a list of the petrified plants
- Reference number
- EL/W3/14
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1668
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Joseph Walsh, Extract of a letter, from Joseph Walsh [to the Royal Society], 01 January 1668, EL/W3/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_14/extract-of-a-letter-from-joseph-walsh-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 18 January 2026
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