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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Particulars of the discovery of some very singular balls of stone, found in the works of the Huddersfield Canal'

Read 21 April 1796

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L&P/10/145
Earliest possible date
08 April 1796
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Particulars of the discovery of some singular balls of stone found in the works of the Huddersfield canal' by Benjamin Outram, 08 April 1796, L&P/10/145, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_145/paper-particulars-of-the-discovery-of-some-singular-balls-of-stone-found-in-the-works-of-the-huddersfield-canal-by-benjamin-outram, accessed on 21 April 2025

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