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Paper, 'On the genus Ocythoë' extracted from a letter from Thomas Say to Wm [William] Elford Leach

Reference number: PT/13/9

Date: 1819

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the genus Ocythoë; being an extract of a letter from Thomas Say, Esq. of Philadelphia, to Wm. Elford Leach, M. D. F. R. S'.

Read 4 February 1819.

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/13/9
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1819
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Say

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Thomas Say, Paper, 'On the genus Ocythoë' extracted from a letter from Thomas Say to Wm [William] Elford Leach, 1819, PT/13/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_9/paper-on-the-genus-ocythoë-extracted-from-a-letter-from-thomas-say-to-wm-william-elford-leach, accessed on 13 June 2025

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