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Subject: Geography

Read 24 June 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/179
Earliest possible date
24 May 1756
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the use of the Downs' from C H van der A to George Parker, 24 May 1756, L&P/3/179, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_179/letter-of-the-use-of-the-downs-from-c-h-van-der-a-to-george-parker, accessed on 19 July 2025

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