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  <dc:title>Letter, regarding Caspar Neumann's treatise on ambergris from A [Ambrose] Godfrey [Hanckewitz] to Sir Hans Sloane</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Godfrey-Hanckewitz copies out a letter sent to him by Caspar Neumann regarding his paper on ambergris and whether it might be published in Philosophical Transactions, as well as Godfrey-Hanckewitz's response to Neumann. Godfrey-Hanckewitz describes his own further experiments in distilling ambergris and obtaining very little salt, confirming Neumann's results.

Subject: Chemistry

Extract published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Editoris recensio experimentorum circa Ambram gryseam à Domino Joh. Browne, R. S. S. &amp; à Dno. Ambrosio Godofredo Hanckewitz, R. S. S. institutorum, cum D. Neumanni, R. S. S. Experimenti sui vindicatione'.

Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1731.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1731]</dc:date>
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