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Paper, regarding a 'ball [...] taken out of the maw of a fat ox' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/15ii/17

Date: 1730

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A description of a 'ball' which had been sent to the Royal Society by Mrs Moyle, widow of the late Walter Moyle, Cornwall.

Subject: Veterinary medicine

Read to the Royal Society on 21 May 1730

Reference number
CLP/15ii/17
Earliest possible date
1730
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, regarding a 'ball [...] taken out of the maw of a fat ox' by unknown author, 1730, CLP/15ii/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15ii_17/paper-regarding-a-ball-taken-out-of-the-maw-of-a-fat-ox-by-unknown-author, accessed on 16 November 2025

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