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Subject: Geology

Read 11 February 1741.

Reference number
L&P/1/50
Earliest possible date
30 September 1741
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'On earthquake shocks' from Matthew Plant to Bearcroft, 30 September 1741, L&P/1/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_50/letter-on-earthquake-shocks-from-matthew-plant-to-bearcroft, accessed on 10 February 2025

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