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Reference numberL&P/11/27
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'An account of a trigonometrical survey of 1795-4' from Edward Williams, William Mudge and Isaac Dalby to Joseph Banks
Date27 March 1797
DescriptionSubject: Mathematics/Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the trigonometrical survey, carried on in the years 1795, and 1796, by order of the Marquis Cornwallis, Master General of the Ordance'

Read 11 May 1797
Extent41p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1797.0022
Related records in the catalogueL&P/11/28
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
NA2171Mudge; William (1762 - 1820)1762 - 1820
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