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Paper, 'Of amphibious bipes' by John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/4/335

Date: 1776

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A supplement to the account of an amphibious bipes; by John Ellis, Esq; (Art. XXII.) being the anatomical description of the said animal'

Read 5 June 1766

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L&P/4/335
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1776
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5 pages
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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Of amphibious bipes' by John Hunter, 1776, L&P/4/335, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_335/paper-of-amphibious-bipes-by-john-hunter, accessed on 10 October 2024

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