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'A Continuation of an Account of an Essay towards a Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby with some extracts out of the sixth Set' by Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: RBO/19/11

Date: 1734

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Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1734

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RBO/19/11
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1734
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4 pages
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'A Continuation of an Account of an Essay towards a Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby with some extracts out of the sixth Set' by Cromwell Mortimer, 1734, RBO/19/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_19_11/a-continuation-of-an-account-of-an-essay-towards-a-natural-history-of-carolina-and-the-bahama-islands-by-mark-catesby-with-some-extracts-out-of-the-sixth-set-by-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 21 June 2025

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