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Letter, 'Of some plates of white glass found at Herculaneum' from John Nixon to Charles Morton

Reference number: L&P/4/65

Date: 03 February 1761

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Additional observations upon some plates of white glass found at Hercula­neum: In a letter to Charles Morton, M. D. R. S. S'

Read 9 April 1761

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L&P/4/65
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03 February 1761
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Ink on paper
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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John Nixon

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John Nixon, Letter, 'Of some plates of white glass found at Herculaneum' from John Nixon to Charles Morton, 03 February 1761, L&P/4/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_65/letter-of-some-plates-of-white-glass-found-at-herculaneum-from-john-nixon-to-charles-morton, accessed on 17 January 2025

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