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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Four letters from Mr. T. S. Kuckhan, to the President and members of the Royal Society, on the preservation of dead birds.'

Read 24 May 1770

Reference number
L&P/5/180
Earliest possible date
22 May 1770
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the preservation of dead birds' from Tesser Samuel Kuckhan, 22 May 1770, L&P/5/180, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_180/letter-on-the-preservation-of-dead-birds-from-tesser-samuel-kuckhan, accessed on 20 July 2026

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