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Letter, 'Of the management of carps in Polish Russia' from Johann Reinhold Forster to Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/5/248

Date: 05 June 1771

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. to the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice-Pres. R. S. on the management of carp in polish Prussia'

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L&P/5/248
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05 June 1771
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Letter, 'Of the management of carps in Polish Russia' from Johann Reinhold Forster to Daines Barrington, 05 June 1771, L&P/5/248, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_248/letter-of-the-management-of-carps-in-polish-russia-from-johann-reinhold-forster-to-daines-barrington, accessed on 03 December 2024

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