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Paper, 'An analysis of the earthy substances from New South Wales, called Sydenia or Terra Australis' by Charles Hatchett

Reference number: L&P/11/45

Date: 1798

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An analysis of the earthy substance from New South Wales, called Sydneia or Terra Australis'

Read 8 February 1798

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L&P/11/45
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1798
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50 pages
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Charles Hatchett

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Charles Hatchett, Paper, 'An analysis of the earthy substances from New South Wales, called Sydenia or Terra Australis' by Charles Hatchett, 1798, L&P/11/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_45/paper-an-analysis-of-the-earthy-substances-from-new-south-wales-called-sydenia-or-terra-australis-by-charles-hatchett, accessed on 14 December 2025

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