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Paper, 'Account of a new map of the River Volga' by Johann Reinhold Forster to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/48

Date: 21 October 1768

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Subject: Cartography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. J. R. Forster, F. A. S. to M. Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. containing some account of a new map of the river Volga.'

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L&P/5/48
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21 October 1768
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4 pages
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Johann Reinhold Forster

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Johann Reinhold Forster, Paper, 'Account of a new map of the River Volga' by Johann Reinhold Forster to Matthew Maty, 21 October 1768, L&P/5/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_48/paper-account-of-a-new-map-of-the-river-volga-by-johann-reinhold-forster-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 07 December 2024

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