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Letter, 'Of the lumen boreale' from A Crocker to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/7/220

Date: 11 August 1781

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Contains illustration.

Subject: Astronomy

Read 8 November 1781

Reference number
L&P/7/220
Earliest possible date
11 August 1781
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Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the lumen boreale' from A Crocker to Joseph Banks, 11 August 1781, L&P/7/220, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_220/letter-of-the-lumen-boreale-from-a-crocker-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 07 March 2026

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