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Letter, 'Thanks for election' from Carl Linnaeus to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/2/494

Date: 10 April 1754

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Subject: Correspondence

Read 2 May 1754

Reference number
L&P/2/494
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10 April 1754
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus, Letter, 'Thanks for election' from Carl Linnaeus to the Royal Society, 10 April 1754, L&P/2/494, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_494/letter-thanks-for-election-from-carl-linnaeus-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 June 2025

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