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Description

Contains four plates

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some observations on the mode of generation of the kanguroo, with a particular description of the organs themselves'

Read 5 March 1795

Reference number
L&P/10/106
Earliest possible date
1795
Physical description
Ink on paper and four plates
Page extent
34 pages
Format
Typescript
Manuscript

Creator name

Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Some obervations on the mode of generation of the kangaroo' by Everard Home, 1795, L&P/10/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_106/paper-some-obervations-on-the-mode-of-generation-of-the-kangaroo-by-everard-home, accessed on 18 July 2025

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