Letter, 'Of the alt-marsh mussel Pensilvania' from John Bartram to Peter Collinson
Reference number: L&P/1/309
Date: 04 July 1742
Description
Contains small figure.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Dr. John Bartram to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. containing some observation concerning the salt-marsh muscle, the oyster-banks, and the fresh-water muscle, of Pensylvania'
Read 8 November 1744
- Reference number
- L&P/1/309
- Earliest possible date
- 04 July 1742
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, 'Of the alt-marsh mussel Pensilvania' from John Bartram to Peter Collinson, 04 July 1742, L&P/1/309, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_309/letter-of-the-alt-marsh-mussel-pensilvania-from-john-bartram-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 17 March 2026
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