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Letter, 'Of the petrified trees at Gilsland' from J Farish to James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/4/314

Date: 30 January 1766

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Subject: Botany

Read 10 April 1766

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L&P/4/314
Earliest possible date
30 January 1766
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the petrified trees at Gilsland' from J Farish to James Douglas, 30 January 1766, L&P/4/314, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_314/letter-of-the-petrified-trees-at-gilsland-from-j-farish-to-james-douglas, accessed on 12 January 2025

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