Paper, 'Of a bird hithero unrecognized as English' by John Lightfoot
Reference number: L&P/8/104
Date: 20 November 1783
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Contains plate.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an English bird of the genus Motacilla, supposed to be hitherto unnoticed by British ornithologists; observed by the Rev. John Lightfoot, M.A. F.R.S. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S.'
Read 18 November 1784
- Reference number
- L&P/8/104
- Earliest possible date
- 20 November 1783
- Physical description
- Ink on paper and plate
- Page extent
- 9 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Lightfoot, Paper, 'Of a bird hithero unrecognized as English' by John Lightfoot, 20 November 1783, L&P/8/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_104/paper-of-a-bird-hithero-unrecognized-as-english-by-john-lightfoot, accessed on 16 June 2025
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