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Subject: Zoology

Read 29 March 1787

Reference number
L&P/9/37
Earliest possible date
20 February 1787
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
32 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Edward Jenner

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Edward Jenner, Letter, 'Observations on the cuckoo and on the emigration of birds' from Edward Jenner to John Hunter, 20 February 1787, L&P/9/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_37/letter-observations-on-the-cuckoo-and-on-the-emigration-of-birds-from-edward-jenner-to-john-hunter, accessed on 16 May 2025

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