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Paper, 'Voyage to the North Pole' by Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/6/57

Date: 1774

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Subject: Navigation

Read 19 May 1774

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L&P/6/57
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1774
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Ink on paper
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67 pages
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Manuscript

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Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Paper, 'Voyage to the North Pole' by Daines Barrington, 1774, L&P/6/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_57/paper-voyage-to-the-north-pole-by-daines-barrington, accessed on 16 June 2025

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