Paper, 'Account of a bituminous lake or plain in the island of Trinidad' by Alexander Anderson
Reference number: L&P/9/116
Date: 1788
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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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Date: 31st December 1789
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1789.0008
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