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Hill provides a brief description of long, striped shells, or dactyli, commonly found on the shores of Ancona.

Subject: Zoology / Conchology / Carcinology

Read to the Royal Society on 15 May 1689

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CLP/15i/39
Earliest possible date
May 1689
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, regarding shells found at Ancona [Italy] by Mr Hill, May 1689, CLP/15i/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_39/paper-regarding-shells-found-at-ancona-italy-by-mr-hill, accessed on 21 March 2025

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