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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks upon the nature of the soil of Naples, and its neighbourhood; in a letter from the Honourable William Hamilton, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at Naples, to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S'

Read 10 January 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/206
Earliest possible date
16 October 1770
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
26 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Hamilton

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William Hamilton, Letter, 'Of the soil of Naples and the neighbourhood' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty, 16 October 1770, L&P/5/206, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_206/letter-of-the-soil-of-naples-and-the-neighbourhood-from-william-hamilton-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 14 June 2026

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