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Paper, 'Observations on Malvern waters' by John Wall

Reference number: L&P/3/97

Date: 12 December 1755

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Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An essay on the waters of the holy well at Malvern, Worcestershire'

Read 5 February 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/97
Earliest possible date
12 December 1755
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
12 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Observations on Malvern waters' by John Wall, 12 December 1755, L&P/3/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_97/paper-observations-on-malvern-waters-by-john-wall, accessed on 12 December 2025

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