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Paper, 'Of a quadruped brought from Bengal' by James Parsons

Reference number: L&P/1/406

Date: 27 June 1745

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Contains small engraving.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a quadruped brought from Bengal, and now to be seen in London'

Read 27 June 1745

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L&P/1/406
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27 June 1745
Physical description
Ink on paper and small engraving
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Parsons

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James Parsons, Paper, 'Of a quadruped brought from Bengal' by James Parsons, 27 June 1745, L&P/1/406, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_406/paper-of-a-quadruped-brought-from-bengal-by-james-parsons, accessed on 17 February 2026

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