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Paper, 'Of sea-anemones' by Jacque Francois Dicquemare

Reference number: L&P/6/91

Date: 1775

Description

11 pages in French and 24 pages in English. Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A second essay on the natural history of the sea-anemonies.'

Read 9 March 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/91
Earliest possible date
1775
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
35 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of sea-anemones' by Jacque Francois Dicquemare, 1775, L&P/6/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_91/paper-of-sea-anemones-by-jacque-francois-dicquemare, accessed on 20 June 2025

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