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Letter, 'Of the water of Somersham, Hant' from Daniel Peter Layard to William Heberden

Reference number: L&P/4/297

Date: 15 November 1765

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Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to William Heberden, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and of the Royal Society, from Daniel Peter Layard, M.D. Physician to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and of the Royal Societies of London and Gottingen; giving an account of the Somersham Water, in the county of Huntingdon; and transmitting a letter from Michael Morris, M.D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and Physi'

Read 23 January 1766

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L&P/4/297
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15 November 1765
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Ink on paper
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Peter Layard

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Daniel Peter Layard, Letter, 'Of the water of Somersham, Hant' from Daniel Peter Layard to William Heberden, 15 November 1765, L&P/4/297, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_297/letter-of-the-water-of-somersham-hant-from-daniel-peter-layard-to-william-heberden, accessed on 16 September 2024

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