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Paper, 'Of the belemnite' by Joshua Platt

Reference number: L&P/4/183

Date: 1763

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An attempt to account for the origin and the formation of the extraneous fossil commonly called the Belemnite. [Vide Tab. III. IV. V.]'

Read 26 January 1764

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L&P/4/183
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1763
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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Joshua Platt

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Joshua Platt, Paper, 'Of the belemnite' by Joshua Platt, 1763, L&P/4/183, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_183/paper-of-the-belemnite-by-joshua-platt, accessed on 23 January 2026

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