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Reference numberMM/14/132
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Godfrey Copley to Thomas Kirke
Date20 November 1667
DescriptionOn Royal Society business.

Mentioned as a postscript: "We had a very exact acount of a vast number of Beetles which fell not long since in some part of Ireland & eat & destroyed all the leaves of trees fruit & grasse for many miles, so that trees and groun was covered over with them".
Extent1 side
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8421Copley; Sir; Godfrey (c1653 - 1709); politicianc1653 - 1709
NA5452Kirke; Thomas (1650 - 1706); antiquary and topographer1650 - 1706
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