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Paper, 'Traite du corail [Coral milking]' by Jean Andre Peysonnel

Reference number: L&P/2/294

Date: 1752

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a manuscript treatise presented to the Royal Society, intituled, Traité du corail, contenant les nouvelles decouvertes, qu' on a fait sur le corail, les pores, madrepores, scharras, litophitons, eponges, et autres corpset productions, quela mer fournit, pour servir a l'historie naturelle de la mer; that is to say, A treatise upon coral, and several other productions furnish'd by the sea, in order to illustrate the natural history thereof, by the Sieur de Peyssonnel, M. D'

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L&P/2/294
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1752
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Paper, 'Traite du corail [Coral milking]' by Jean Andre Peysonnel, 1752, L&P/2/294, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_294/paper-traite-du-corail-coral-milking-by-jean-andre-peysonnel, accessed on 09 October 2024

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