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Paper, 'An account of the free martin' by John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/7/92

Date: 1779

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Subject: Zoology

Publlished in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the free martin'

Read 25 February 1779

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L&P/7/92
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1779
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Ink on paper
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'An account of the free martin' by John Hunter, 1779, L&P/7/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_92/paper-an-account-of-the-free-martin-by-john-hunter, accessed on 13 February 2026

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