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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the manners, habits, and natural history, of the elephant'

Read 24 January 1799

Reference number
L&P/11/86
Earliest possible date
1798
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Ink on paper
Page extent
57 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Corse Scott

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John Corse Scott, Paper, 'Observations on the manners, habits and natural history of the elephant' by John Corse, 1798, L&P/11/86, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_86/paper-observations-on-the-manners-habits-and-natural-history-of-the-elephant-by-john-corse, accessed on 21 April 2026

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