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Paper, 'Description of the anatomy of the orinthorphynchus paradoxus' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/11/175

Date: 1801

Description

Contains six plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A Description of the anatomy of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus'

Read 17 December 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/175
Earliest possible date
1801
Physical description
Ink on paper and six plates
Page extent
44 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Description of the anatomy of the orinthorphynchus paradoxus' by Everard Home, 1801, L&P/11/175, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_175/paper-description-of-the-anatomy-of-the-orinthorphynchus-paradoxus-by-everard-home, accessed on 10 July 2026

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