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Letter, 'Of the distemper among horned cattle' from Daniel Peter Layard to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/7/169

Date: 08 April 1780

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to Joseph Banks, Esq. President of the Royal Society, &c. from Daniel-Peter Layard, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of London, Antiquaries, and Gottingen, &c. relative to the distemper among horned cattle'

Read 15 June 1780

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L&P/7/169
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08 April 1780
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Peter Layard

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Daniel Peter Layard, Letter, 'Of the distemper among horned cattle' from Daniel Peter Layard to Joseph Banks, 08 April 1780, L&P/7/169, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_169/letter-of-the-distemper-among-horned-cattle-from-daniel-peter-layard-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 18 July 2025

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