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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a bitumen lake or plain in the island of Trinidad;'

Read 19 February 1789

Reference number
L&P/9/116
Earliest possible date
1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
27 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Account of a bituminous lake or plain in the island of Trinidad' by Alexander Anderson, 1788, L&P/9/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_116/paper-account-of-a-bituminous-lake-or-plain-in-the-island-of-trinidad-by-alexander-anderson, accessed on 16 August 2026

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