Letter, 'Account of Sumatra [Indonesia]; extracts from letters from Bencoolen [Bengkulu]' from Charles Miller to Edward King

Reference number: L&P/7/12

Date: 12 December 1777

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Subject: Zoology/Botany/Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the island of Sumatra, &c'

Read 29 January 1778

Reference number: L&P/7/12
Earliest possible date: 12 December 1777
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 14 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Letter, 'Account of Sumatra [Indonesia]; extracts from letters from Bencoolen [Bengkulu]' from Charles Miller to Edward King, 12 December 1777, L&P/7/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_12/letter-account-of-sumatra-indonesia-extracts-from-letters-from-bencoolen-bengkulu-from-charles-miller-to-edward-king, accessed on 11 July 2025

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Date: 31st December 1778

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1778.0011

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 7 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1778-1782 Reference number: L&P/7

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