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Paper, 'An account of the blue shark' by William Watson

Reference number: L&P/7/49

Date: 1778

Description

Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the blue shark, together with a drawing of the same.'

Read 4 June 1778

Reference number
L&P/7/49
Earliest possible date
1778
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Watson

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William Watson, Paper, 'An account of the blue shark' by William Watson, 1778, L&P/7/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_49/paper-an-account-of-the-blue-shark-by-william-watson, accessed on 08 March 2026

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