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Paper, 'On a saline substance from Mount Vesuvius' by James Smithson

Reference number: PT/7/30

Date: 03 July 1813

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a saline substance from Mount Vesuvius'.

Read 8 July 1813.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/7/30
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03 July 1813
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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James Smithson

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James Smithson, Paper, 'On a saline substance from Mount Vesuvius' by James Smithson, 03 July 1813, PT/7/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_30/paper-on-a-saline-substance-from-mount-vesuvius-by-james-smithson, accessed on 08 March 2026

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