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Letter, 'Of a roof thrown down in Gravel-lane by the earthquake of 8 March 1749/50' from Jackson to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/2/148

Date: 1750

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of part of a roof of a pot-house at Lambeth being flung down by the earthquake, March 8. 1749-50'

Read 21 June 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/148
Earliest possible date
1750
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of a roof thrown down in Gravel-lane by the earthquake of 8 March 1749/50' from Jackson to the Royal Society, 1750, L&P/2/148, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_148/letter-of-a-roof-thrown-down-in-gravel-lane-by-the-earthquake-of-8-march-174950-from-jackson-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 January 2025

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