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Autograph letter signed by sender. Went to see the bones of the mastodon last Friday. R. I. Murchison and W. H. Wollaston will be coming to Oxford on the 18 Feb.; can John Frederick William Herschel arrange to meet them there?

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HS/4/321
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22 January 1828
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1 page
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Manuscript

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William Buckland

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William Buckland, Letter, from William Buckland to Sir John Herschel, dated at Oxford, 22 January 1828, HS/4/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_321/letter-from-william-buckland-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 21 January 2025

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