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Letter, 'Note on a sheep's skin' from James Parsons to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/3/17

Date: 29 April 1755

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some account of a sheep, shewed alive to the Royal Society, in November 1754, having a monstrous horn growing from his throat; the stuffed skin of which, with the horn in situ, is now in the Museum of the Society'

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L&P/3/17
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29 April 1755
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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James Parsons

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James Parsons, Letter, 'Note on a sheep's skin' from James Parsons to Thomas Birch, 29 April 1755, L&P/3/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_17/letter-note-on-a-sheeps-skin-from-james-parsons-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 12 December 2024

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