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Letter, 'Of the Gillaroo trout' from Daines Barrington to Samuel Horsley

Reference number: L&P/6/23

Date: 23 December 1773

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Subejct: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the gillaroo trout. A letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, to the Rev. Dr. Horsley'

Read 23 December 1773

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L&P/6/23
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23 December 1773
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Letter, 'Of the Gillaroo trout' from Daines Barrington to Samuel Horsley, 23 December 1773, L&P/6/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_23/letter-of-the-gillaroo-trout-from-daines-barrington-to-samuel-horsley, accessed on 15 June 2025

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