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Paper, 'Of the phocae' by James Parsons

Reference number: L&P/2/101

Date: 1751

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A dissertation upon the class of the phocæ marinæ'

Read 14 February 1751

Reference number
L&P/2/101
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1751
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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James Parsons

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James Parsons, Paper, 'Of the phocae' by James Parsons, 1751, L&P/2/101, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_101/paper-of-the-phocae-by-james-parsons, accessed on 17 May 2025

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