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Paper, 'Description of birds sent from Hudsons Bay' by Johann Reinhold Forster

Reference number: L&P/5/308

Date: 1772

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the birds sent from Hudson's Bay; with observations relative to their natural history; and Latin descriptions of some of the most uncommon'

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L&P/5/308
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1772
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Ink on paper
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72 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Reinhold Forster

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Johann Reinhold Forster, Paper, 'Description of birds sent from Hudsons Bay' by Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772, L&P/5/308, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_308/paper-description-of-birds-sent-from-hudsons-bay-by-johann-reinhold-forster, accessed on 03 December 2024

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