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Paper, 'Observations on the genus Ocythoë of Rafinesque with a description of a new species' by Wm [William] Elford Leach

Reference number: PT/11/22

Date: 1817

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/14-16.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on the genus of Ocythoë Rafinesque, with a description of a new species'.

Read 5 June 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/22
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1817
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William Elford Leach

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William Elford Leach, Paper, 'Observations on the genus Ocythoë of Rafinesque with a description of a new species' by Wm [William] Elford Leach, 1817, PT/11/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_22/paper-observations-on-the-genus-ocythoë-of-rafinesque-with-a-description-of-a-new-species-by-wm-william-elford-leach, accessed on 24 June 2025

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