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Paper, 'Translated extract of a letter. Thanks for his election as FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] and remarks on the preparations for observing the Transit of Venus' by Benedict Ferner

Reference number: L&P/4/41

Date: 13 January 1761

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Subject: Astronomy/Correspondence

Read 29 January 1761

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L&P/4/41
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13 January 1761
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2 pages
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Benedict Ferner

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Benedict Ferner, Paper, 'Translated extract of a letter. Thanks for his election as FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] and remarks on the preparations for observing the Transit of Venus' by Benedict Ferner, 13 January 1761, L&P/4/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_41/paper-translated-extract-of-a-letter-thanks-for-his-election-as-frs-fellow-of-the-royal-society-and-remarks-on-the-preparations-for-observing-the-transit-of-venus-by-benedict-ferner, accessed on 16 June 2025

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