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Letter, 'Of a stone identified as Quartzium fossils' from Joseph Banks to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/6/44

Date: 1774

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Subject: Geology

Read 14 April 1774

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L&P/6/44
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1774
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Banks

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Joseph Banks, Letter, 'Of a stone identified as Quartzium fossils' from Joseph Banks to the Royal Society, 1774, L&P/6/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_44/letter-of-a-stone-identified-as-quartzium-fossils-from-joseph-banks-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 17 September 2026

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