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Paper, 'Observations on the affinity between basaltes and granite' by Thomas Beddoes

Reference number: L&P/9/185

Date: 1790

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the affinity between basaltes and granite'

Read 27 January 1971

Reference number
L&P/9/185
Earliest possible date
1790
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Ink on paper
Page extent
56 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Observations on the affinity between basaltes and granite' by Thomas Beddoes, 1790, L&P/9/185, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_185/paper-observations-on-the-affinity-between-basaltes-and-granite-by-thomas-beddoes, accessed on 11 November 2025

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