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Paper, 'Of corallines and other marine animals' by Job Baster

Reference number: L&P/3/247

Date: 1757

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35 pages in Latin, with 34 pages in English

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observationes de corallinis, iisque insidentibus polypis, aliisque animalculis marinis: Quas Regiæ Societati Londinenst offert Job Baster, Med. Doct. Acad. Cæsar. Reg. Societ. Lond. & Scient. Holland. Socius'

Read 12 May 1757

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L&P/3/247
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1757
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Ink on paper
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69 pages
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Manuscript

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Job Baster

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Job Baster, Paper, 'Of corallines and other marine animals' by Job Baster, 1757, L&P/3/247, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_247/paper-of-corallines-and-other-marine-animals-by-job-baster, accessed on 11 November 2025

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