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Paper, 'Of the aphides of Linnaeus' by William Richardson

Reference number: L&P/5/226

Date: 1771

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the aphides of linnæus, by Dr. William Richardson, of Ripon, Yorkshire: communicated by William Heberden, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 14 March 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/226
Earliest possible date
1771
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Ink on paper
Page extent
14 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the aphides of Linnaeus' by William Richardson, 1771, L&P/5/226, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_226/paper-of-the-aphides-of-linnaeus-by-william-richardson, accessed on 08 December 2025

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