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Paper, 'A new mole from North America' by Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/5/240

Date: 15 May 1771

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a mole from North America: In a letter to Dr. Maty, Sec. R. S. from the Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. S'

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L&P/5/240
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15 May 1771
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Paper, 'A new mole from North America' by Daines Barrington, 15 May 1771, L&P/5/240, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_240/paper-a-new-mole-from-north-america-by-daines-barrington, accessed on 10 September 2026

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