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Letter, 'A beautiful Chinese pheasant - the argus' from George Edwards to Peter Collinson

Reference number: L&P/4/255

Date: 01 March 1765

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of a beautiful Chinese pheasant; the feathers and drawing of which were send from Canton to John Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S'

Read 7 March 1765

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L&P/4/255
Earliest possible date
01 March 1765
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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George Edwards

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George Edwards, Letter, 'A beautiful Chinese pheasant - the argus' from George Edwards to Peter Collinson, 01 March 1765, L&P/4/255, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_255/letter-a-beautiful-chinese-pheasant-the-argus-from-george-edwards-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 15 September 2024

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