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Paper, 'Account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog...some observations on hermaphrodites in general' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/11/91

Date: 1798

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Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog. To which are prefixed, some observations on hermaphrodites general'

Read 7 March 1799

Reference number
L&P/11/91
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1798
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
49 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog...some observations on hermaphrodites in general' by Everard Home, 1798, L&P/11/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_91/paper-account-of-the-dissection-of-an-hermaphrodite-dogsome-observations-on-hermaphrodites-in-general-by-everard-home, accessed on 16 December 2025

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