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Letter, 'Of a petrified Echinus' from James Parsons to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/3/14

Date: 09 January 1755

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks upon a petrified Echinus of a singular kind, shewn to the Royal Society, April 24, 1755, by the Reverend Richard Pococke, LL. D. Archdeacon of Dublin, and F. R. S. found on Bunnan's-Land, in the Parish of Bovingdon in Hertfordshire, which is a clay, and supposed to have been brought with the chalk, dug out of a pit in the field'

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L&P/3/14
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09 January 1755
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2 pages
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James Parsons

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James Parsons, Letter, 'Of a petrified Echinus' from James Parsons to the Royal Society, 09 January 1755, L&P/3/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_14/letter-of-a-petrified-echinus-from-james-parsons-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 17 July 2026

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