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Letter, 'Of the migration of swallows' from Keane Fitzgerald to Peter Collinson

Reference number: L&P/3/331

Date: 27 March 1758

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Subject: Zoology

Read 9 November 1758

Reference number
L&P/3/331
Earliest possible date
27 March 1758
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Keane Fitzgerald

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Keane Fitzgerald, Letter, 'Of the migration of swallows' from Keane Fitzgerald to Peter Collinson, 27 March 1758, L&P/3/331, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_331/letter-of-the-migration-of-swallows-from-keane-fitzgerald-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 10 December 2023

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