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Description

Contains plate.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a new marine animal. In a letter from Mr. Everard Home, Surgeon, to John Hunter, Esq. F.R.S. With a postscript by Mr. Hunter, containing anatomical remarks upon the same'

Read 7 March 1785

Reference number
L&P/8/143
Earliest possible date
20 September 1784
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
24 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Description of a sea animal from Barbados' by Everard Home, 20 September 1784, L&P/8/143, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_143/paper-description-of-a-sea-animal-from-barbados-by-everard-home, accessed on 12 November 2024

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