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Letter, 'On the preservation of birds' from Tesser Samuel Kuckahn to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/5/184

Date: 31 May 1770

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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 21 June 1770

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L&P/5/184
Earliest possible date
31 May 1770
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Tesser Samuel Kuckahn

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Tesser Samuel Kuckahn, Letter, 'On the preservation of birds' from Tesser Samuel Kuckahn to the Royal Society, 31 May 1770, L&P/5/184, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_184/letter-on-the-preservation-of-birds-from-tesser-samuel-kuckahn-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 27 April 2025

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