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Paper, 'On the fecundity of fishes' by Thomas Harmer

Reference number: L&P/4/396

Date: 1767

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks on the very different accounts that have been given of the fecundity of fishes, with fresh observations on that subject'

Read 28 May 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/396
Earliest possible date
1767
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Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'On the fecundity of fishes' by Thomas Harmer, 1767, L&P/4/396, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_396/paper-on-the-fecundity-of-fishes-by-thomas-harmer, accessed on 21 January 2025

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