Letter, regarding a Cornish bird called 'Petrel' from Mr Moyle to Tancred Robinson
Reference number: CLP/15ii/18
Date: 1731
Description
Moyle sends details of a bird 'generally seen off at sea a good distance from the land [...] almost perpetually on the wing, and rarely observ'd to alight anywhere'.
Subject: Zoology / Ornithology
Read to the Royal Society on 25 March 1731
- Reference number
- CLP/15ii/18
- Earliest possible date
- 1731
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, regarding a Cornish bird called 'Petrel' from Mr Moyle to Tancred Robinson, 1731, CLP/15ii/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15ii_18/letter-regarding-a-cornish-bird-called-petrel-from-mr-moyle-to-tancred-robinson, accessed on 08 February 2025
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