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Paper, 'On the conversion of animal muscle into a substance much resembling Spermaceti' by George Smith Gibbes

Reference number: L&P/10/76

Date: 1794

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the conversion of animal muscle into a substance much resembling spermaceti'

Read 13 March 1794

Reference number
L&P/10/76
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1794
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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George Smith Gibbes

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George Smith Gibbes, Paper, 'On the conversion of animal muscle into a substance much resembling Spermaceti' by George Smith Gibbes, 1794, L&P/10/76, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_76/paper-on-the-conversion-of-animal-muscle-into-a-substance-much-resembling-spermaceti-by-george-smith-gibbes, accessed on 13 February 2025

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