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Paper, 'Of an American wasps-nest' by Israel Mauduit

Reference number: L&P/3/22

Date: 1755

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophica Transactions, as 'Some observations upon an American wasps-nest, shewn to the Royal Society'

Read 15 May 1755

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L&P/3/22
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1755
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Israel Mauduit

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Israel Mauduit, Paper, 'Of an American wasps-nest' by Israel Mauduit, 1755, L&P/3/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_22/paper-of-an-american-wasps-nest-by-israel-mauduit, accessed on 09 December 2024

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