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Letter, 'Of the Gillaroo trout' from Henry Watson to John Pringle

Reference number: L&P/6/24

Date: 19 January 1774

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the stomach of the gillaroo trout. In a letter from Mr. Henry Watson to Sir John Pringle'

Read 27 January 1774

Reference number
L&P/6/24
Earliest possible date
19 January 1774
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Watson

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Henry Watson, Letter, 'Of the Gillaroo trout' from Henry Watson to John Pringle, 19 January 1774, L&P/6/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_24/letter-of-the-gillaroo-trout-from-henry-watson-to-john-pringle, accessed on 24 May 2025

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