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Letter, 'Loch Lomond on Nov 1' from James Colquhoun to Mr Fletcher

Reference number: L&P/3/93

Date: 08 December 1755

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the earthquake, Novem. 1, 1755, as felt in the lead mines in Derbyshire; In a letter from the reverend Mr. Bullock to Lewis Crusius, D. D. F. R. S.'

Read 22 January 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/93
Earliest possible date
08 December 1755
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Loch Lomond on Nov 1' from James Colquhoun to Mr Fletcher, 08 December 1755, L&P/3/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_93/letter-loch-lomond-on-nov-1-from-james-colquhoun-to-mr-fletcher, accessed on 24 April 2025

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