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Discussing ambergris; quotes from Paul Dudley on ambergris; details of how ambergris is used eg in perfumes with details of how it is made
Read to the Royal Society on 4 June 1730

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RBO/14/125
Earliest possible date
1730
Page extent
12 pages
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Manuscript

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Account by Thomas Stack of a treatise entitled 'De Ambra grysea' by Caspar Neuman, 1730, RBO/14/125, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_125/account-by-thomas-stack-of-a-treatise-entitled-de-ambra-grysea-by-caspar-neuman, accessed on 11 February 2026

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