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'An account of a peculiar Entrochus' in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane from Dr Joannes Henry Heucher, Physician to the King of Poland, Professor of Anatomy and Botany at Wittemberg

Reference number: RBO/14/119

Date: 1730

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Original letter dated 29 March 1730
Entrochus is a fossil
Read to the Royal Society on 7 May 1730

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RBO/14/119
Earliest possible date
1730
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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'An account of a peculiar Entrochus' in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane from Dr Joannes Henry Heucher, Physician to the King of Poland, Professor of Anatomy and Botany at Wittemberg, 1730, RBO/14/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_119/an-account-of-a-peculiar-entrochus-in-a-letter-to-sir-hans-sloane-from-dr-joannes-henry-heucher-physician-to-the-king-of-poland-professor-of-anatomy-and-botany-at-wittemberg, accessed on 19 May 2025

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