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Letter, 'Of the cavern in Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny' from Adam Walker to Charles Morton

Reference number: L&P/5/316

Date: 20 April 1771

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S. from Mr. Adam Walker; containing an account of the cavern of Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny, in Ireland'

Read 19 November 1772

Reference number
L&P/5/316
Earliest possible date
20 April 1771
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the cavern in Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny' from Adam Walker to Charles Morton, 20 April 1771, L&P/5/316, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_316/letter-of-the-cavern-in-dunmore-park-near-kilkenny-from-adam-walker-to-charles-morton, accessed on 09 May 2026

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