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Paper, 'Account of an extraordinary pheasant' by John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/7/166

Date: 1790

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of an extraordinary pheasant'

Read 1 June 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/166
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1790
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Ink on paper
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Account of an extraordinary pheasant' by John Hunter, 1790, L&P/7/166, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_166/paper-account-of-an-extraordinary-pheasant-by-john-hunter, accessed on 14 July 2025

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