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Paper, 'Nouvelles decouvertes sur l'histoire du corail [New discoveries on the history of coral]' by Vitaliano Donati

Reference number: L&P/2/99

Date: 1750

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Sixteen pages in French with sixteen pages of English translation. Contains three plates.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'New discoveries relating to the history of coral, by Dr. Vitaliano Donati. Translated from the French, by Tho. Stack, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 7 February 1751

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L&P/2/99
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1750
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Ink on paper with three plates
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35 pages
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Manuscript

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Vitaliano Donati

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Vitaliano Donati, Paper, 'Nouvelles decouvertes sur l'histoire du corail [New discoveries on the history of coral]' by Vitaliano Donati, 1750, L&P/2/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_99/paper-nouvelles-decouvertes-sur-lhistoire-du-corail-new-discoveries-on-the-history-of-coral-by-vitaliano-donati, accessed on 10 April 2026

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