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Letter, 'On certain small water animals (hydra)' from Charles Bentinck to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/1/2

Date: 15 September 1741

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Last paragraph has been scored through. Contains small sketch [attached to letter]

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Extract of a letter from J. F. Gronovius, M. D. at Leyden, November 1742. to Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning a water insect, which, being cut into several pieces, becomes so many perfect animals'

Subject: Zoology

Read 29 October 1941.

Reference number
L&P/1/2
Earliest possible date
15 September 1741
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'On certain small water animals (hydra)' from Charles Bentinck to Martin Folkes, 15 September 1741, L&P/1/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_2/letter-on-certain-small-water-animals-hydra-from-charles-bentinck-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 13 September 2024

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