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Paper, 'Description of a fish without scales shown to the R.S. [Royal Society] by Ralph Bigland' from Cromwell Mortimer to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/2/165

Date: 1750

Description

Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The description of a fish, shewed to the Royal Society by Mr. Ralph Bigland, on March 22, 1749-50: Drawn up by C. Mortimer, M. D. Secret. R. S.'

Read 5 July 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/165
Earliest possible date
1750
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Cromwell Mortimer

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Cromwell Mortimer, Paper, 'Description of a fish without scales shown to the R.S. [Royal Society] by Ralph Bigland' from Cromwell Mortimer to the Royal Society, 1750, L&P/2/165, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_165/paper-description-of-a-fish-without-scales-shown-to-the-rs-royal-society-by-ralph-bigland-from-cromwell-mortimer-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 22 July 2026

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