Letter, 'Eruption of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to James Douglas
Reference number: L&P/4/384
Date: 03 February 1767
Description
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 2 April 1767
- Reference number
- L&P/4/384
- Earliest possible date
- 03 February 1767
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Hamilton, Letter, 'Eruption of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to James Douglas, 03 February 1767, L&P/4/384, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_384/letter-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius-from-william-hamilton-to-james-douglas, accessed on 17 February 2026
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