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Letter, 'Of a fossil from Whitby' from Wooller to Lascelles

Reference number: L&P/3/339

Date: 15 November 1758

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Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A decription of the fossil skeleton of an animal found in the alum rock near Whitby'

Read 23 Novemebr 1758

Reference number
L&P/3/339
Earliest possible date
15 November 1758
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of a fossil from Whitby' from Wooller to Lascelles, 15 November 1758, L&P/3/339, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_339/letter-of-a-fossil-from-whitby-from-wooller-to-lascelles, accessed on 30 November 2023

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