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Primary sources: manuscript
- Cambridge University Library, Royal Greenwich Observatory MSS (CUL RGO) 14/64, Logbook of HMS Investigator.
- CUL RGO 14/65, Reduction of the astronomical observations made in the voyage of the Investigator, 1801–5.
- CUL RGO 14/66, Observations on voyages of discovery.
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- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Flinders papers (NMM FLI/11), Matthew Flinders's biographical tribute to his cat Trim 1809.
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Primary sources: printed
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