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Letter, 'Account of an uncommon bird from Malacca' from James Badenach to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/266

Date: 13 October 1771

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from James Badenach, M. D. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. containing a technical description of an uncommon bird from Malacca.'

Read 9 January 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/266
Earliest possible date
13 October 1771
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Account of an uncommon bird from Malacca' from James Badenach to Matthew Maty, 13 October 1771, L&P/5/266, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_266/letter-account-of-an-uncommon-bird-from-malacca-from-james-badenach-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 09 June 2026

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