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Paper, 'Of American birds' by Mark Catesby

Reference number: L&P/1/207

Date: 1743

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Subject: Zoology

States that the paper was 'published in his book'.

Read 23 June 1743.

Reference number
L&P/1/207
Earliest possible date
1743
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Mark Catesby

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Mark Catesby, Paper, 'Of American birds' by Mark Catesby, 1743, L&P/1/207, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_207/paper-of-american-birds-by-mark-catesby, accessed on 16 June 2025

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