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Contains five plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks on the voluntary expansion of the skin of the neck, in the cobra de capello or booded snake of the East Indies. By Patrick Russell, M. D. F. R. S. with a description of the structure of the parts which perform that office. By Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S'

Read 14 June 804

Reference number
L&P/12/78
Earliest possible date
1804
Physical description
Ink on paper and five plates
Page extent
20 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Patrick Russell

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Patrick Russell, Paper, 'Account of the voluntary expansion of the skin of the neck in the Cobra di Capella' by Patrick Russell and Everard Home, 1804, L&P/12/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_78/paper-account-of-the-voluntary-expansion-of-the-skin-of-the-neck-in-the-cobra-di-capella-by-patrick-russell-and-everard-home, accessed on 24 April 2025

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