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Paper, 'On a fossil human skeleton from Guadaloupe' by Charles Konig in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks

Reference number: PT/8/9

Date: 20 December 1813

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Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a fossil human skeleton from Guadeloupe. By Charles Konig, Esq. F. R. S. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S'.

Written by Konig at the British Museum. Read 10 February 1814.

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/8/9
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20 December 1813
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25 pages
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Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig

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Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig, Paper, 'On a fossil human skeleton from Guadaloupe' by Charles Konig in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks, 20 December 1813, PT/8/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_9/paper-on-a-fossil-human-skeleton-from-guadaloupe-by-charles-konig-in-a-letter-to-the-rt-hon-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 17 March 2026

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