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Letter, 'Of a fossil thigh-bone from the Stonesfield Slate' from Joshua Platt to Peter Collinson

Reference number: L&P/3/288

Date: 20 January 1758

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Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the fossile thigh-bone of a large animal, dug up at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire. In a letter to Mr.Peter Collinson, F. R. S. from Mr. Joshua Platt'

Read 2 February 1758

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L&P/3/288
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20 January 1758
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Joshua Platt

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Joshua Platt, Letter, 'Of a fossil thigh-bone from the Stonesfield Slate' from Joshua Platt to Peter Collinson, 20 January 1758, L&P/3/288, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_288/letter-of-a-fossil-thigh-bone-from-the-stonesfield-slate-from-joshua-platt-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 12 February 2026

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