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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the sea-cow, and the use made of it'

Read 2 March 1775

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L&P/6/90
Earliest possible date
1775
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Molyneux Shuldham

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Molyneux Shuldham, Paper, 'Of the sea-cow and the use made of it' by Molyneux Shuldham, 1775, L&P/6/90, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_90/paper-of-the-sea-cow-and-the-use-made-of-it-by-molyneux-shuldham, accessed on 19 July 2026

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