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Paper, 'On a new variety in the breeds of sheep' in a letter from Col David Humphreys to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks

Reference number: PT/7/11

Date: 01 November 1811

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new variety in the breeds of sheep'.

Written by Humphreys in Humphreysville, Connecticut. Read 14 January 1813.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/7/11
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01 November 1811
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11 pages
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David Humphreys

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David Humphreys, Paper, 'On a new variety in the breeds of sheep' in a letter from Col David Humphreys to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks, 01 November 1811, PT/7/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_11/paper-on-a-new-variety-in-the-breeds-of-sheep-in-a-letter-from-col-david-humphreys-to-the-right-hon-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 03 December 2024

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