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Letter, 'Of the frog-fish of Surinam' from Henry Baker to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/4/5

Date: 17 April 1760

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the frog- fish of Surinam, addressed to the Royal Society, by Mr. George Edwards, F. R. S.'

Read 17 April 1760

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L&P/4/5
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17 April 1760
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the frog-fish of Surinam' from Henry Baker to Thomas Birch, 17 April 1760, L&P/4/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_5/letter-of-the-frog-fish-of-surinam-from-henry-baker-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 22 March 2025

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