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  <dc:title>Letter, regarding trip to Île de Ré and experiments on torpedoes from John Walsh to [Benjamin] Franklin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Additional letter from Walsh to Franklin regarding his visit to the Isle de Ré [Île de Ré, near La Rochelle, France] to study further torpedoes or electric rays, focusing on their 'torpedinal fluid' which conducts electricity.

Subject: Zoology / Marine Biology

Extracts of this letter were published in a paper in Philosophical Transactions titled 'Of the electric property of the torpedo'.

Written by Walsh in Paris [France]. A note verso of final page reads 'Delivered by Dr Franklin July 1 1773'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>27 August 1772</dc:date>
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