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Paper, 'On the burrowing and boring marine animals' by Edward Osler

Reference number: PT/18/11

Date: 15 February 1826

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/12/10-15.

Subject: Zoology

Published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On burrowing and boring marine animals'.

Communicated by L W [Lewis Weston] Dillwyn. Read 25 May 1826.

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/18/11
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15 February 1826
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Osler

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Edward Osler, Paper, 'On the burrowing and boring marine animals' by Edward Osler, 15 February 1826, PT/18/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_18_11/paper-on-the-burrowing-and-boring-marine-animals-by-edward-osler, accessed on 20 January 2025

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