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Hampe shares details about a narwhal caught in the creek called 'Beluhmer Wadt', in the Duchy of Bremen.

Subject: Zoology

Read to the Royal Society on 19 February 1735

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description of the same narhual'

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CLP/15ii/23
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Joannes Henricus Hampe

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Joannes Henricus Hampe, Paper, 'A description of the same narhual' by John Henry Hampe, CLP/15ii/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15ii_23/paper-a-description-of-the-same-narhual-by-john-henry-hampe, accessed on 12 December 2025

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    The 'Classified Papers' of the Royal Society are papers from British and international natural philosophers and scholars categorised according to subject areas.

    Dates: 1592 - 1741

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