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Paper, 'Of a production of nature at Dunbar like the Giant's Causeway' by Richard Ossory

Reference number: L&P/4/51

Date: 1761

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a production of nature at Dunbar in Scotland, like that of the Giants-Causeway in Ireland'

Read 26 February 1761

Reference number
L&P/4/51
Earliest possible date
1761
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a production of nature at Dunbar like the Giant's Causeway' by Richard Ossory, 1761, L&P/4/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_51/paper-of-a-production-of-nature-at-dunbar-like-the-giants-causeway-by-richard-ossory, accessed on 07 February 2025

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