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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to the Rev. M. Lort, B.D. F. R. S. containing an account of a singular fish, from the South Seas, by the Rev. Mr. Michael Tyson'

Read 9 May 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/238
Earliest possible date
11 March 1771
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Michael Tyson

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Michael Tyson, Letter, 'Of a newly-discovered fish from the South Seas' from Michael Tyson to Michael Lort, 11 March 1771, L&P/5/238, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_238/letter-of-a-newly-discovered-fish-from-the-south-seas-from-michael-tyson-to-michael-lort, accessed on 19 January 2026

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