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Paper, 'Observations on the camel's stomach' by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/12/138

Date: 1806

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Contains five plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the camel's stomach respecting the water it contains, and the reservoirs, in which that fluid is inclosed; with an account of some peculiarities in the urine'

Read 12 June 1806

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L&P/12/138
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1806
Physical description
Ink on paper and five plates
Page extent
32 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Observations on the camel's stomach' by Everard Home, 1806, L&P/12/138, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_138/paper-observations-on-the-camels-stomach-by-everard-home, accessed on 20 July 2025

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