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Description

Contains nine plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some observations on the structure of the teeth of graminivorous quadrupeds; particularly those of the elephant and Sus Æthiopicus'

Read 30 May 1799

Reference number
L&P/11/101
Earliest possible date
1799
Physical description
Ink on paper and nine plates
Page extent
38 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Some observations on the structure of the teeth of graminvorous quadrupeds, particularly of elephants' by Everard Home, 1799, L&P/11/101, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_101/paper-some-observations-on-the-structure-of-the-teeth-of-graminvorous-quadrupeds-particularly-of-elephants-by-everard-home, accessed on 18 July 2026

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