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Paper, 'Of natron from Tripoli' by Donald Monro

Reference number: L&P/5/263

Date: 1771

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a pure native crystalised natron, or fossil alkaline salt, which is found in the country of Tripoli in Barbary'

Read 19 December 1771

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L&P/5/263
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1771
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Donald Monro

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Donald Monro, Paper, 'Of natron from Tripoli' by Donald Monro, 1771, L&P/5/263, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_263/paper-of-natron-from-tripoli-by-donald-monro, accessed on 07 March 2026

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