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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Discoveries on the sex of bees, explaining the manner in which their species is propagated; with an account of the utility that may be derived from those discoveries by the actual application of them to practice'

Read 21 November 1776

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L&P/6/212
Earliest possible date
1776
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Discoveries of sex in bees' by John Debraw, 1776, L&P/6/212, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_212/paper-discoveries-of-sex-in-bees-by-john-debraw, accessed on 14 November 2024

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