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Subject: Zoology/Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a stag's head and horns, found at Alport, in the parish of Youlgreave, in the county of Derby. In a letter from the Rev. Robert Barker, B.D. to John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S'

Read 14 April 1785

Reference number
L&P/8/146
Earliest possible date
23 January 1785
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Barker

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Robert Barker, Letter, 'Of a stag's head and horns found in turf at Alport, Derbyshire' from Robert Barker to John Jebb, 23 January 1785, L&P/8/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_146/letter-of-a-stags-head-and-horns-found-in-turf-at-alport-derbyshire-from-robert-barker-to-john-jebb, accessed on 13 November 2024

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