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Letter, 'A recent petrification found on the coast of East Lothian' by Edward King to John Pringle

Reference number: L&P/7/67

Date: 14 November 1778

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a petrefaction found on the coast of East Lothian'

Read 26 November 1778

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L&P/7/67
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14 November 1778
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19 pages
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Edward King

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Edward King, Letter, 'A recent petrification found on the coast of East Lothian' by Edward King to John Pringle, 14 November 1778, L&P/7/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_67/letter-a-recent-petrification-found-on-the-coast-of-east-lothian-by-edward-king-to-john-pringle, accessed on 20 January 2026

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