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Extract of a Letter from Peter Kinck to James Theobald

Reference number: RBO/14/5

Date: 1728

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Original letter dated 24 May 1728
Observations of the fish Zygena; account of the unseasonable weather in Eneback in Norway from the Autumn of 1727
Read to the Royal Society on 21 November 1728

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RBO/14/5
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1728
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Extract of a Letter from Peter Kinck to James Theobald, 1728, RBO/14/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_5/extract-of-a-letter-from-peter-kinck-to-james-theobald, accessed on 10 October 2024

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