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Letter, from Mr Wilson to the Earl of Leicester [Robert Sidney]

Reference number: EL/W3/60

Date: 12 August 1668

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Account of unicorns' horns, the purging root from China called 'Macknaquam' and bezoar stone from Portugal
Read to the Royal Society on 25 March 1680

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EL/W3/60
Earliest possible date
12 August 1668
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1 page
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Manuscript
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Letter, from Mr Wilson to the Earl of Leicester [Robert Sidney], 12 August 1668, EL/W3/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_60/letter-from-mr-wilson-to-the-earl-of-leicester-robert-sidney, accessed on 11 December 2024

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