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A67006 Brief instructions for making observations in all parts of the world as also, for collecting, preserving, and sending over natural things : being an attempt to settle an universal correspondence for the advancement of knowledg both natural and civil / drawn up at the request of a person of honour and presented to the Royal Society. Woodward, John, 1665-1728. 1696 (1696) Wing W3509; ESTC R7163 17,515 26

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