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Letter, 'On Dr Job Baster's 'Observationes de Corallinis'' from John Ellis to George Parker

Reference number: L&P/3/250

Date: 09 June 1757

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks on Dr. Job Baster's observationes de corallinis, &c. printed above, p. 258. In a letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of the R. S. from Mr. John Ellis, F. R. S'

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L&P/3/250
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09 June 1757
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Ellis

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John Ellis, Letter, 'On Dr Job Baster's 'Observationes de Corallinis'' from John Ellis to George Parker, 09 June 1757, L&P/3/250, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_250/letter-on-dr-job-basters-observationes-de-corallinis-from-john-ellis-to-george-parker, accessed on 09 July 2025

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