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Paper, 'Observations on the different species of Asiatic elephants and their mode of dentition' by John Corse

Reference number: L&P/11/100

Date: 1799

Description

Contains eight plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the different species of Asiatic elephants, and their mode of dentition'

Read 23 May 1799

Reference number
L&P/11/100
Earliest possible date
1799
Physical description
Ink on paper and eight plates
Page extent
64 pages
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Manuscript

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John Corse Scott

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John Corse Scott, Paper, 'Observations on the different species of Asiatic elephants and their mode of dentition' by John Corse, 1799, L&P/11/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_100/paper-observations-on-the-different-species-of-asiatic-elephants-and-their-mode-of-dentition-by-john-corse, accessed on 11 July 2025

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