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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an earthquake felt at Lingfield in Surrey, and Edenbridge in Kent, on the 24th of January 1758'

Read 6 April 1758

Reference number
L&P/3/302
Earliest possible date
06 April 1758
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Burrow

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James Burrow, Paper, 'Of an earthquake felt at Lingfield and Edenbridge' by James Burrow, 06 April 1758, L&P/3/302, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_302/paper-of-an-earthquake-felt-at-lingfield-and-edenbridge-by-james-burrow, accessed on 21 June 2025

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