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Paper, 'On Terra ponderosa' by William Withering

Reference number: L&P/8/72

Date: 1783

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the Terra Ponderosa, &c'

Read 1 April 1784

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L&P/8/72
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1783
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Ink on paper
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31 pages
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Manuscript

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William Withering

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William Withering, Paper, 'On Terra ponderosa' by William Withering, 1783, L&P/8/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_72/paper-on-terra-ponderosa-by-william-withering, accessed on 08 August 2026

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