Thomas Kirke to Hans Sloane – March 17, 1694
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Date: March 17, 1694 Author: Thomas Kirke Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 197-198
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English
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British Library, London
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Royal Society, Scientific, Travel
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Experiments, Waters
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March 17, 1694
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Cookridge
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Kirke travelled to a nitrous spring to examine its waters. He and his chemist took samples with which they experimented. Any discoveries will be forwarded to the Royal Society. Kirke writes of the undertaking in some detail. Thomas Kirke (1650-1706) was an antiquary and topographer. He was a elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1693 and published his work in the Philosophical Transactions (Clare Jackson, ‘Kirke, Thomas (1650–1706)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15666, accessed 3 July 2014]).
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