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Letter, 'The eruption of Mount Vesuvius of 1767' from William Hamilton to James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/5/3

Date: 29 December 1767

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An Account of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in 1767: In a Letter to the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society, from the Honourable William Hamilton, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at Naples'

Read 11 February 1768

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L&P/5/3
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29 December 1767
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hamilton

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William Hamilton, Letter, 'The eruption of Mount Vesuvius of 1767' from William Hamilton to James Douglas, 29 December 1767, L&P/5/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_3/letter-the-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius-of-1767-from-william-hamilton-to-james-douglas, accessed on 10 December 2024

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