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Letter, 'Of Coluber cerastes, the horned viper of Egypt' from John Ellis to James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/4/352

Date: 1766

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from John Ellis, Esq; F. R. S. to the President, on the coluber cerastes, or horned viper of Egypt'

Read 11 December 1766

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L&P/4/352
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1766
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Ellis

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John Ellis, Letter, 'Of Coluber cerastes, the horned viper of Egypt' from John Ellis to James Douglas, 1766, L&P/4/352, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_352/letter-of-coluber-cerastes-the-horned-viper-of-egypt-from-john-ellis-to-james-douglas, accessed on 03 December 2024

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