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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the power that animals, when placed in certain circumstances, posses of producing cold'

Read 14 June 1781

Reference number
L&P/7/213
Earliest possible date
1781
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
37 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Adair Crawford

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Adair Crawford, Paper, 'Of the power in animals of producing cold' by Adair Crawford, 1781, L&P/7/213, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_213/paper-of-the-power-in-animals-of-producing-cold-by-adair-crawford, accessed on 20 July 2025

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