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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An essay on the periodical appearing and disappearing of certain birds, at different times of the year. In a letter from the Honourable Daines Barrington, Vice-Pref. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 2 April 1772

Reference number
L&P/5/293
Earliest possible date
1772
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
74 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Paper, 'Of the migration of birds' by Daines Barrington, 1772, L&P/5/293, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_293/paper-of-the-migration-of-birds-by-daines-barrington, accessed on 16 June 2025

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