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Letter, 'Observations on the fresh-water polype' from Abraham Trembley to the President of the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/1/321

Date: 1744

Description

Contains four small figures.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Translation of a letter from Mr. Abraham Trembley, F. R. S. to the President, with observations upon several newly discover’d species of fresh-water Polypi'

Read 22 November 1744

Reference number
L&P/1/321
Earliest possible date
1744
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Ink on paper
Page extent
17 pages
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Manuscript

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Abraham Trembley

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Abraham Trembley, Letter, 'Observations on the fresh-water polype' from Abraham Trembley to the President of the Royal Society, 1744, L&P/1/321, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_321/letter-observations-on-the-fresh-water-polype-from-abraham-trembley-to-the-president-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 September 2024

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