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RefNoL&P/2/304
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Of an uncommon waterspout' from Benjamin Ray to George Shelvocke
Date9 May 1752
DescriptionSubject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a water-spout, rais'd off the land, in Deeping-Fen, Lincolnshire; by the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Ray, of Cowbit near Spalding in that country; communicated to the Society at Spalding, on the 7 of May 1752, by Maurice Johnson, Esq; and by him to the Royal Society'

Read 28 May 1752
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1751.0081
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1332Shelvocke; George (- ? 1760) - ? 1760
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