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Letter, 'Of earthquakes' from Edward Gulston to John Carnac

Reference number: L&P/4/172

Date: 21 April 1762

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the earthquakes that have been felt in the province of Islamabad, with the damages attending them, from the 2d to the 19th of April, 1762: Translated from the Perisan, and communicated to Henry Vansittart, Esq; President and Governor of Fort William in Bengal, by Mr. Verelst, Chief of the Hon. East India Company's Affairs at Islamabad'

Read 17 November 1763

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L&P/4/172
Earliest possible date
21 April 1762
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of earthquakes' from Edward Gulston to John Carnac, 21 April 1762, L&P/4/172, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_172/letter-of-earthquakes-from-edward-gulston-to-john-carnac, accessed on 10 December 2024

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