(Brief?) Memoir upon the communication of Electricity: read at the public meeting at the Royal Academy of Sciences, the 12 of Nov(ember)r 1746, by Monsieur le Monier the younger, M.D. of the Royal Academy of Sciences and F.R.S.

Date:
1746
Reference:
MS.2391/1
Part of:
Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)
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Description

Holograph MS. by Folkes, endorsed: 'Dec. 11, 1746. Pr. Tr. 481. VI'. Produced in London.

Publication/Creation

1746

Physical description

3 ll (folio. 31 × 191/2 cm.). Piece cut out of the first leaf, with loss of text.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1932.

Biographical note

Louis Guillaume Lemonnier [1717-1799] was a French physician and scientist. He was elected F.R.S. in 1745, was a member of the Académie des Sciences and professor of botany at the Jardin du Roi in 1758.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 68412