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Paper, 'Of the petrified stratum formed by the waters of Matlock' by Matthew Dobson

Reference number: L&P/6/16

Date: 15 October 1773

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Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of a petrified stratum, formed from the waters of Matlock, in Derbyshire'

Read 13 January 1773

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L&P/6/16
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15 October 1773
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Matthew Dobson

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Matthew Dobson, Paper, 'Of the petrified stratum formed by the waters of Matlock' by Matthew Dobson, 15 October 1773, L&P/6/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_16/paper-of-the-petrified-stratum-formed-by-the-waters-of-matlock-by-matthew-dobson, accessed on 18 April 2026

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