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Description

Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Sir Hans Sloane, late Pr. R. S. to Martin Folkes Esquire Pr. R. S. containing acconnts of the pretended serpent-stone called Pietra de Cobra de Cabelos, and of the Pietra de Mombazza or the rhinoceros bezoar, together with the figure of a rhinoceros with a double horn'

Read 14 June 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/147
Earliest possible date
14 June 1750
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Hans Sloane

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Hans Sloane, Paper, 'Exhibition, through Dr C Mortimer, of certain bezoar and other stones' by Hans Sloane, 14 June 1750, L&P/2/147, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_147/paper-exhibition-through-dr-c-mortimer-of-certain-bezoar-and-other-stones-by-hans-sloane, accessed on 14 December 2025

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