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Paper, 'A short description of certain high mountains abounding in fossil wood' by Samuel Christian Hollman

Reference number: L&P/3/419

Date: 1759

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3 pages in Latin and 14 pages in English.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Montium quorundam præaltorum, magna ligni fossilis copia quasi infaretorum, brevis descriptio Sam. Chirist. Hollmanni, Philosophiæ Professor. Goettingensis, et S. R. Sodalis'

Read 7 February 1760

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L&P/3/419
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1759
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17 pages
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Samuel Christian Hollman

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Samuel Christian Hollman, Paper, 'A short description of certain high mountains abounding in fossil wood' by Samuel Christian Hollman, 1759, L&P/3/419, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_419/paper-a-short-description-of-certain-high-mountains-abounding-in-fossil-wood-by-samuel-christian-hollman, accessed on 13 July 2025

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