File RAS GOV4/120 - Letter from Richard Clarke to the Secretary, Geological Society

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GB 891 RAS GOV4-RAS GOV4/120

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Letter from Richard Clarke to the Secretary, Geological Society

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  • 30th Jan 1847 (Creation)

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(1823-)

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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

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Letter from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to the Secretary, Geological Society, to request information on a piece of petrified wood found in Burma by an officer of the East India Company, Madras Artillery. (Found on page 65)

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  • English

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