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Letter, 'Of the heat in animals' from Cromwell Mortimer to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/1/413

Date: 20 June 1745

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society, from Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr, of the same, concerning the natural heat of animals'

Read 4 July 1745

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L&P/1/413
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20 June 1745
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Cromwell Mortimer

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Cromwell Mortimer, Letter, 'Of the heat in animals' from Cromwell Mortimer to Martin Folkes, 20 June 1745, L&P/1/413, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_413/letter-of-the-heat-in-animals-from-cromwell-mortimer-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 04 December 2025

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