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Paper, 'On pinguins' by Thomas Pennant

Reference number: L&P/5/19

Date: 1768

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the different species of the birds, called Pinguins [penguins].'

Read 17 March 1768

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L&P/5/19
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1768
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Pennant

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Thomas Pennant, Paper, 'On pinguins' by Thomas Pennant, 1768, L&P/5/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_19/paper-on-pinguins-by-thomas-pennant, accessed on 21 June 2025

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