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Letter, 'Of a marine insect' from Andrew Peter Dupont to Emanuel Mendez Da Costa

Reference number: L&P/4/146

Date: 17 January 1763

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Subejct: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a remarkable marine insect: In a letter of Mr. Andrew Peter Du Pont, to Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian to the R. S.'

Read 10 March 1763

Reference number
L&P/4/146
Earliest possible date
17 January 1763
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of a marine insect' from Andrew Peter Dupont to Emanuel Mendez Da Costa, 17 January 1763, L&P/4/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_146/letter-of-a-marine-insect-from-andrew-peter-dupont-to-emanuel-mendez-da-costa, accessed on 18 January 2026

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