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Letter, 'Observations on the sugar ants' from John Castles to Melville

Reference number: L&P/9/170

Date: 02 May 1790

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophial Transactions, as 'Observations on the sugar ants. In a letter from John Castles, Esq. to Lieut. Gen. Melvill, F. R. S'

Read 6 May 1790

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L&P/9/170
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02 May 1790
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Ink on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Observations on the sugar ants' from John Castles to Melville, 02 May 1790, L&P/9/170, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_170/letter-observations-on-the-sugar-ants-from-john-castles-to-melville, accessed on 12 January 2025

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