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Paper, 'Smelts transplanted' by Paul Dudley

Reference number: CLP/15i/70

Date: January 1723

Description

Dudley describes how an 'ingenious man' took smelts (family Osmeridae) from a river and deposited them in a local pond. Dudley observes that the smelts have increased abundantly but that they have 'degenerated to a very small sort'.

Subject: Zoology / Ichthyology

Read to the Royal Society on 10 January 1723

Reference number
CLP/15i/70
Earliest possible date
January 1723
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paul Dudley

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Paul Dudley, Paper, 'Smelts transplanted' by Paul Dudley, January 1723, CLP/15i/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_70/paper-smelts-transplanted-by-paul-dudley, accessed on 17 September 2026

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