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Letter, 'Earthquake at Macao and account of monkeys without tails found in the interior part of Bengal' from Stephen De Visme to Henry Baker

Reference number: L&P/5/81

Date: 07 January 1768

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Subject: Zoology/Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Abstract of a letter from Stephen De Visme, Esq; at Canton, in China, to Henry Baker, F. R. S. containing an account of an earthquake at Macao, and a short description of a singular species of monkeys without tails, found in the interior part of Bengal'

Read 9 March 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/81
Earliest possible date
07 January 1768
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Earthquake at Macao and account of monkeys without tails found in the interior part of Bengal' from Stephen De Visme to Henry Baker, 07 January 1768, L&P/5/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_81/letter-earthquake-at-macao-and-account-of-monkeys-without-tails-found-in-the-interior-part-of-bengal-from-stephen-de-visme-to-henry-baker, accessed on 15 May 2025

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