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Letter, 'Of the labour of certain bees' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray

Reference number: L&P/4/18

Date: 11 June 1760

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a specimen of the labour of a kind of bees, which lay up their young in cases of leaves, which they bury in rotten wood: In a letter to Daniel Wray, Esq; F. R. S. from Sir Francis Eyles Styles, Bart. F. R. S'

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L&P/4/18
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11 June 1760
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4 pages
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Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles

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Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles, Letter, 'Of the labour of certain bees' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray, 11 June 1760, L&P/4/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_18/letter-of-the-labour-of-certain-bees-from-francis-haskins-eyles-stiles-to-daniel-wray, accessed on 12 December 2024

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