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Paper, 'Experiments on animal electricity' by Grant David Yeats

Reference number: L&P/11/92

Date: 1799

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Subject: Zoology

Read 14 March 1799

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L&P/11/92
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1799
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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Grant David Yeats

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Grant David Yeats, Paper, 'Experiments on animal electricity' by Grant David Yeats, 1799, L&P/11/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_92/paper-experiments-on-animal-electricity-by-grant-david-yeats, accessed on 19 January 2026

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