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Paper, 'Experiments and observations on shell and bone' by Charles Hatchett

Reference number: L&P/11/105

Date: 1799

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on shell and bone'

Read 13 June 1799

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L&P/11/105
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1799
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Ink on paper
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34 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Hatchett

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Charles Hatchett, Paper, 'Experiments and observations on shell and bone' by Charles Hatchett, 1799, L&P/11/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_105/paper-experiments-and-observations-on-shell-and-bone-by-charles-hatchett, accessed on 20 July 2025

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