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Reference numberEL/W3/54
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Nicolaus Witsen to Martin Lister, dated at Amsterdam
CreatorWitsen; Nicholaes Corneliszoon (1651-1717); Dutch politician; collector; mayor of Amsterdam; administrator of the Dutch East India Company
Date3 October 1698
DescriptionObservations of 'Nova Hollandia': the soil; trees, shellfish; the coast line
Read to the Royal Society on 26 October 1698
LanguageEnglish
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Place originAmsterdam, North Holland, (United Provinces) Netherlands
Origin coordinates52.37403, 4.88969
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Access statusOpen
Related materialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 20, no 245, p 361
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/d01358a2-ff6e-42f4-9171-ac3a5513afe4
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8382Lister; Martin (1639 - 1712); physician and naturalist1639 - 1712
NA8030Witsen; Nicolaus (1641 - 1717); statesman and collector1641 - 1717
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