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Letter, 'Of the electric eel' from Hugh Williamson to John Walsh

Reference number: L&P/6/85

Date: 07 February 1775

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the gymnotus electricus, or electric eel'

Read 9 February 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/85
Earliest possible date
07 February 1775
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the electric eel' from Hugh Williamson to John Walsh, 07 February 1775, L&P/6/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_85/letter-of-the-electric-eel-from-hugh-williamson-to-john-walsh, accessed on 13 June 2025

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