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Paper, 'An account of a not yet described Scolopendra marina [sea centipede]' by Thomas Molyneux

Reference number: CLP/15i/52

Date: February 1696

Description

Molyneux shares details of marine animal found in the stomach of a cod which was caught off the coast of Dublin. Followed by two figures in pencil of the Scolopendra marina.

Subject: Zoology

Printed in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of a not yet described scolopendra marina, by Thomas Molyneux, M. D. S. R. S. Communicated by Mr. Locke'

Read to the Royal Society on 24 February 1696

Reference number
CLP/15i/52
Earliest possible date
February 1696
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Molyneux

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Thomas Molyneux, Paper, 'An account of a not yet described Scolopendra marina [sea centipede]' by Thomas Molyneux, February 1696, CLP/15i/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_52/paper-an-account-of-a-not-yet-described-scolopendra-marina-sea-centipede-by-thomas-molyneux, accessed on 24 March 2025

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