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Paper, 'On the freshwater polyp' by Abraham Trembley

Reference number: L&P/1/149

Date: 15 January 1742

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8 pages in French and 12 pages in English.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and experiments upon the fresh-water Polypus, by Monsieur Trembley, at the Hague. Translated from the French by P. H. Z. F. R. S'

Read 20 January 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/149
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15 January 1742
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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Abraham Trembley

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Abraham Trembley, Paper, 'On the freshwater polyp' by Abraham Trembley, 15 January 1742, L&P/1/149, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_149/paper-on-the-freshwater-polyp-by-abraham-trembley, accessed on 05 December 2024

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