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Paper, 'Description of a new species of Chaetodon, called by the Malays ecanbonna' by William Bell

Reference number: L&P/10/30

Date: 1792

Description

Contains two plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a species of Chaetodon, called, by the Malays, Ecan bonna'

Read 17 January 1793

Reference number
L&P/10/30
Earliest possible date
1792
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Description of a new species of Chaetodon, called by the Malays ecanbonna' by William Bell, 1792, L&P/10/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_30/paper-description-of-a-new-species-of-chaetodon-called-by-the-malays-ecanbonna-by-william-bell, accessed on 22 March 2025

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