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Letter, 'An account of the strata observed in sinking for water at Boston in Lincolnshire May 1783' from James Limbird to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/9/20

Date: 28 November 1785

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the strata observed in sinking for water at Boston, in Lincolnshire'

Read 21 December 1786

Reference number
L&P/9/20
Earliest possible date
28 November 1785
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'An account of the strata observed in sinking for water at Boston in Lincolnshire May 1783' from James Limbird to Joseph Banks, 28 November 1785, L&P/9/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_20/letter-an-account-of-the-strata-observed-in-sinking-for-water-at-boston-in-lincolnshire-may-1783-from-james-limbird-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 17 February 2025

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