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Contains three plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the Gymnotus Electricus.'

Read 23 March 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/121
Earliest possible date
1775
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
37 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Account of the gymnotus electricus' by John Hunter, 1775, L&P/6/121, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_121/paper-account-of-the-gymnotus-electricus-by-john-hunter, accessed on 17 February 2025

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