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Letter, 'Of copper springs lately discovered in Pennsylvania' from John Rutty to Peter Collinson

Reference number: L&P/3/169

Date: 22 April 1756

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the copper-springs lately discovered in Pennsylvania'

Read 20 May 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/169
Earliest possible date
22 April 1756
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of copper springs lately discovered in Pennsylvania' from John Rutty to Peter Collinson, 22 April 1756, L&P/3/169, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_169/letter-of-copper-springs-lately-discovered-in-pennsylvania-from-john-rutty-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 21 March 2025

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