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Paper, 'An account of Lacerta' by George Edwards

Reference number: L&P/3/161

Date: 1756

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of lacerta (crocodilus) ventre marsupio donato, faucibus merganseris rostrum æmulantibus'

Read 6 May 1756

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L&P/3/161
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1756
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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George Edwards

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George Edwards, Paper, 'An account of Lacerta' by George Edwards, 1756, L&P/3/161, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_161/paper-an-account-of-lacerta-by-george-edwards, accessed on 09 February 2025

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