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Paper, 'Map of a new archipelago in the North; and native iron discovered by Pallas in Siberia' by Jacob de Stehelin

Reference number: L&P/6/58

Date: 1774

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Subject: Exploration/Cartography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Translation of a letter from M. de Stehlin, Counsellor of State to her Imperial Majesty of Russia, to Dr. Maty, with a specimen of native iron'

Read 9 June 1774

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L&P/6/58
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1774
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Jacob de Stehelin

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Jacob de Stehelin, Paper, 'Map of a new archipelago in the North; and native iron discovered by Pallas in Siberia' by Jacob de Stehelin, 1774, L&P/6/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_58/paper-map-of-a-new-archipelago-in-the-north-and-native-iron-discovered-by-pallas-in-siberia-by-jacob-de-stehelin, accessed on 15 March 2025

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