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Letter, 'On the conversion of the substance of a bird into a hard fatty matter' from Thomas Sneyd to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/10/7

Date: 26 March 1792

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Subejct: Zoology

Publihsed in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the conversion of the substance of a bird into a hard fatty matter. In a letter from Thomas Sneyd, Esq. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S'

Read 29 March 1792

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L&P/10/7
Earliest possible date
26 March 1792
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the conversion of the substance of a bird into a hard fatty matter' from Thomas Sneyd to Joseph Banks, 26 March 1792, L&P/10/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_7/letter-on-the-conversion-of-the-substance-of-a-bird-into-a-hard-fatty-matter-from-thomas-sneyd-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 15 July 2025

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