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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Naples, concerning Herculaneum, containing an account and description of the place, and what has been found in it'

Read 18 April 1751

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L&P/2/191
Earliest possible date
1751
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of Herculaneum, pt II' by unknown author, 1751, L&P/2/191, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_191/paper-of-herculaneum-pt-ii-by-unknown-author, accessed on 11 February 2025

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