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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Two letters from the Hon. William Hamilton, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at Naples, to the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society, containing an account of the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius'

Read 5 March 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/372
Earliest possible date
10 June 1766
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hamilton

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William Hamilton, Letter, 'The last eruption of Vesuvius' from William Hamilton, 10 June 1766, L&P/4/372, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_372/letter-the-last-eruption-of-vesuvius-from-william-hamilton, accessed on 09 February 2025

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