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Part of Captain Pennycook's Journal to New Caledonia in Darien communicated by Dr Wallace

Reference number: RBO/9/5

Date: 1699

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Details about the islands in the Caribbean
Read at the Royal Society on 12 July 1699

Reference number
RBO/9/5
Earliest possible date
1699
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Part of Captain Pennycook's Journal to New Caledonia in Darien communicated by Dr Wallace, 1699, RBO/9/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_5/part-of-captain-pennycooks-journal-to-new-caledonia-in-darien-communicated-by-dr-wallace, accessed on 07 August 2026

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