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Letter, 'Of an agitation of the sea at Barbadoes' from Abraham Mason to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/4/100

Date: 30 May 1761

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Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter to the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, from Mr. Abraham Mason, of Barbadoes, relating to an extraordinary agitation of the sea there, 31st of March 1761, and an epidemical disorder in that Island'

Read 11 March 1762

Reference number
L&P/4/100
Earliest possible date
30 May 1761
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of an agitation of the sea at Barbadoes' from Abraham Mason to Thomas Birch, 30 May 1761, L&P/4/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_100/letter-of-an-agitation-of-the-sea-at-barbadoes-from-abraham-mason-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 10 October 2024

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