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Paper, 'Sixth volume of the history of insects' by [René Antoine Ferchault de] Réaumur

Reference number: L&P/1/150

Date: 1742

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An abstract of what is contained in the pre-face to the sixth volume of Mons. Reaumur's History of Insects, relating to the above-mentioned observations, and delivered in to the Royal Society, immediately after the foregoing paper'

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Note - this paper is not listed in the index of the volume.

Reference number
L&P/1/150
Earliest possible date
1742
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Sixth volume of the history of insects' by [René Antoine Ferchault de] Réaumur, 1742, L&P/1/150, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_150/paper-sixth-volume-of-the-history-of-insects-by-rené-antoine-ferchault-de-réaumur, accessed on 14 June 2026

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