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Paper, ' A remarkable aquatick insect' by Edward King

Reference number: L&P/4/363

Date: 1767

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of a very remarkable aquatick insect, found in a ditch of standing water near Norwich, in the spring of the Year, 1762.'

Read 5 February 1767

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L&P/4/363
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1767
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward King

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Edward King, Paper, ' A remarkable aquatick insect' by Edward King, 1767, L&P/4/363, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_363/paper-a-remarkable-aquatick-insect-by-edward-king, accessed on 16 June 2025

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